romanesque

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These children lived in the literal shadow of Florentine artistic genius: The building in which the Innocenti was housed is a particularly brilliant example of Romanesque architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Kathy: I don’t care if it’s French, Dutch or Romanesque, I’m going to wear a bathing suit top.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Commissions for “fireproof” public buildings poured in, and his mostly Romanesque revival designs soon dotted the state.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museum’s wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood