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Romanesque architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Romanesque Revival architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque ) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque style of architecture. Popular features of these re...
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Romanesque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romanesque can refer to: •Romanesque art, the art of Western Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the 13th century or later •Romanesque architecture, architecture of Europe which emerged in the late ...
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The development of Romanesque architecture owes much to the primacy accorded to vaulting. Masonry vaulting (see vault) since the beginning of Christian architecture had been confined to buildings of relatively small scale and to crypts.
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Romanesque architecture and art, the artistic style that prevailed throughout Europe from the 10th to the mid-12th cent., although it persisted until considerably later in certain areas. The term Romanesque points to the principal source of the style, the buildings of the Roman Empire.
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