romanesque
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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
S. Jacopo, which still retains a fine romanesque arcade, was originally a foundation of the eleventh century.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward
The central lantern—the only romanesque example surviving except that of Lisbon Cathedral—is square, and not as there octagonal.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
