Romanesque
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- noun
- /ˌroʊməˈnɛsk/
- Specialized
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románico
- activait mes fantasmes romanesques.
Examples
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In the eleventh century, the first truly European style of architecture was born: the Romanesque.
Academic text (2000) -
Confusing romanesque and gothic is not a mistake.
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Both campuses have very different architectural styles, and Stanford is more of a Romanesque style where it's kind of like flat and it's newer.
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This is precisely the place in the church where the new, technologically advanced Gothic style was built up off of the cruder, more "natural" Romanesque.
Academic text (2000) -
Edifice, Romanesque.
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Instances of marked stylistic disaffinity in the Western visual arts can be traced back at least as far as the shift from the Romanesque to the Gothic during the early twelfth century.
Academic text (2016) -
The more affluent or self-sacrificing congregations constructed the largest, most faithful replicas of such venerable Old World styles as Gothic, Romanesque, and Baroque.
Academic text (2001) -
If one reads through Schnaase's pages, one soon observes that while he keeps the word 'transition', in reality he sees the Rhenish monuments not as transitional but as creations of an autonomous regional style that leads not from Romanesque to Gothic but has aesthetic value in itself.
Academic text (1998) -
The cathedral's design features stunning Romanesque arches that create a majestic appearance.
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Visitors admired the Romanesque architecture of the ancient church, noting its thick walls and rounded arches.
Synonyms
A European building style from after 1000 with round arches, high curved ceilings, and thick walls often seen in churches
Compounds
- Specialized
A European building style from after 1000 with round arches, high curved ceilings, and thick walls often seen in churches
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Etymology
The word Romanesque comes from Roman, from the city Rome, and the ending -esque, which means 'in the style of'. It originally described buildings that copied old Roman features like rounded arches and thick walls, so today Romanesque means the style from the middle ages with those heavy, rounded shapes.