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romanesque

[roh-muh-nesk] / ˌroʊ məˈnɛsk /


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Beneath the ornately painted ceiling and romanesque arches that spring from huge marble columns, bodies fill every space on the rows of wooden benches.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017

They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

View larger image Ph. B. Most of these romanesque and Gothic churches have no unity of style, owing to the long period covered during their building.

From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Emile Cammaerts

Except for the buttresses and the vault the cloister differs in no marked way from those at Guimarães and elsewhere whose continuous pointed arcades show so little advance from the usual romanesque manner of cloister-building.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson




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