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Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe, characterised by semi-circular arches, and evolving into the Gothic style, characterised by pointed arches, beginning in the 12th...
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The Lund Cathedral (Swedish: ) is the Lutheran cathedral in Lund, Scania, Sweden. It is the seat of the bishop of Lund of the Church of Sweden. Lund was an important town long before there was a cat...
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Here you see the twin towers now accepted as a standard of medieval cathedrals. Elsewhere within the Romanesque period are found the first versions of the cruciform structured church. Here again is a form closely associated with the Gothics.
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Because of the more complex arrangement of spaces, the portion east of the transept in the Romanesque period is referred to as the choir rather than apse, the term used to describe the semicircular space east of an Early Christian or Byzantine transept or nave.
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Romanesque cathedrals (see Romanesque architecture and art) were massive, blocklike, domed and heavily vaulted structures based on the traditional basilica form, reflecting the style dominant in Europe from c.1050 to c.1200. The tall, wide ...
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As of the second half of the 11th century, grandiose, rich shapes characterize Puglia's Romanesque churches, the more significant expression of ... The outstanding example of this typology  is the Basilica di San Nicola di Bari, prototype of this area's other two celebrated  monuments, the cathedrals of Bari and Bitonto.
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The ornamental carvings and the capitals of Romanesque art are developments from the Byzantine. ... All the great Romanesque cathedrals of North Continental Europe use this construction and are distinguished by it from the earlier basilicas with timber roofs and with columns supporting the arches of the nave.
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Covers Romanesque Architecture with illustrations and pictures. Includes follow up questions and links. ... The Romanesque period was from approximately 800 A.D. to 1100 A.D. The term Romanesque was first given to this type of architecture in the 19th Century due to it's similarities between the barrel vault and the...
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Founded in 1087 by the Benedictine Abbot Elias to house the looted remains of San Nicola, the Basilica was the inspirational first of the Puglian Romanesque Cathedrals featured on this page.
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Cell One of the compartments of a groin or rib VAULT, in the Romanesque period usually of plastered rubble, in the Gothic period of neatly coursed stones; the earliest known example is St. Denis of 1140-4. Also called a web. ... The latter form is usual in English Gothic cathedrals. [p. 325]
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