How To Use Romanesque In A Sentence
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The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
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Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.
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With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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Outside the ancient settlement, with its alleyways and arches reinforced with bamboo canes, is the early 13 th-century romanesque church of St Esteve.
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The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
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The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
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The Romanesque wing is all church decorations of various sorts, and all the rooms are designed like actual Romanesque churches, with columns or apses as appropriate to display the (usually fragmentary) decoration in the right place.
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It has also been suggested that the Romanesque crypt of the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Dromon may originally have been the mausoleum of Dardanus and his wife, Nevia Galla.
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Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
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Before the main rampart of the castle (from the Romanesque period) he placed a new bailey wall.
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Further south the Romanesque architecture is traditional but strongly tinged with classical forms from Rome.
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The Cathedral of Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Blaise is similar in quality; it consists of a Romanesque nave that is flanked by aisles and crossed by a transept in early Gothic style.
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The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.
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But I knew how much he'd relish navigating me through the Auvergne on a car-borne hunt for the gems of Romanesque church architecture that have lodged themselves in his heart over all these years.
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Richardsonian Romanesque, named after architect H.H. Richardson, who interpreted Romanesque architecture into a distinctly different style, and created one which abandoned the vertical silhouettes and smooth stone facings of earlier times.
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We have seen examples of this adopted in architectural figures of the Romanesque period in the south-western schools.
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The ornament about this window, especially that in the long panel below it and upon the cyma of the soffit above, is Byzantine in character, while the columns, with the exception of the capital of the one at the left, are much more Romanesque.
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy
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The E and W responds of both nave arcades are Romanesque.
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The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
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Romanesque illuminators paid particular attention to the elaboration of the initial, which might be richly decorated with fantastically distorted human or animal figures.
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We have seen examples of this adopted in architectural figures of the Romanesque period in the south-western schools.
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The high quality of the die-cutting places the bracteates in the ranks of the most important small works of Romanesque art.
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From the Moulin de Cambelong a twisty road rises to the perfectly preserved medieval village of Conques, huddled on the edge of a gorge round the towering Romanesque cathedral church of Sainte-Foy.
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Inside the cemetery is a Romanesque - style memorial chapel in memory of Robert Morrison.
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Closer to the present-day frontier in the section known as the Col de Panissars the ruins of the Romanesque church have been shown by excavation to overlie the remains of an unusual Roman structure.
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Like many New York armories, it looks like a medieval fortress with towers and turrets and Romanesque corbeling.
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The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
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In the sixteenth century the new towns on the Spanish islands were a compilation of mixed styles dominated by the plateresque style, although there were also many Gothic and Romanesque elements.
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They are buildings of the Romanesque or Gothic periods and possess strong Byzantine characteristics.
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His version of Château Lafite follows the original French blueprints but adds two extra floors, and has the building's two wings linked by an arc of Romanesque columns.
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Its progress was the realisation of three great aims, towards which the Romanesque architects were ever striving -- the perfecting of the arcuated and vaulted construction, the increase of the altitude of their proportion, and the general adding of refinement and delicacy to their details. [
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Similar images commonly appear within French Romanesque tympana of the Last Judgment.
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He is a fine late Romanesque painter open to more modern influences, particularly those emanating from Byzantium, perhaps via Franciscan illuminated manuscripts.
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The Church of S. Servaas has a Romanesque east end with apse and twin towers.
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I recall visiting Calvin's church in Geneva, a twelfth-century Romanesque building dedicated to Saint Peter.
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McCain gives me that ... well ... that imperial Romanesque kind of twinge in my belly.
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An 11th century Romanesque Abbey is the centerpiece of Conques and it provides abode and comfort to over 100 pilgrims a night during the high season of the pilgrimage, from May to September; the village has concerts and street markets and a spirit of faith drawn from its patron saint, a fourth century adolescent martyr, Sainte Foy.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Journey for Body and Soul: The St. Jacques de Compostelle Pilgrimage Trail
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Sirens, the most common hybrids to be included in Romanesque sculpture, appear frequently in the context of the monastic cloister.
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In the Romanesque and Gothic styles, the archivolt frames the tympanum, a richly sculpted panel.
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His Navajo cheekbones dazzled; his classic Romanesque nose left one breathless.
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The lay-out of the chevet is characteristic of the bigger Romanesque churches in Auvergne; the pyramidal arrangement of the tiers of clearly distinct masses makes it easy to follow the architectural design of the interior.
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Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
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There have been at least three churches on the site since the one built by Eadwine counting his timber church and its stone replacement as one: a larger ‘Anglo-Saxon’ church built in the 8th century and sometimes called the Anglian Minster; a Norman Minster built in the Romanesque style in the 11th century; and the present Minster built in the Gothic style between the 13th and 15th centuries.
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Study and research into pre-Romanesque architecture is still comparatively recent and more is being found out each decade.
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In the latter case, Gothic evolved from Romanesque vaulting (modelled on Roman precedent) following brilliant experiments in the eleventh century.
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For one thing, it's being held at the Gladstone, that ragged, Romanesque marvel on Queen West, home to bohos and assorted karaoke casualties.
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Durham Cathedral is one of the most majestic cathedrals in Britain and a unique combination of Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
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At the western extremity of Florentine territory (in the outskirts of Pisa) was a historic Petrine site, the Romanesque church of San Piero a Grado.
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The crypt of the Romanesque-Gothic transitional Basilique Saint-Paul, which contains several Roman sarcophagi, is considered to have been the mausoleum of a wealthy family.
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After this mass, another was celebrated in one of the apsidiole chapels at the Romanesque cathedral of S. Reparata.
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Construction began in 1903 on the neoclassical Romanesque style house of worship.
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With neon-lit mock Chinese fishing villages, a Romanesque coliseum and a man-made volcano spewing artificial lava, Macau believes it would, like Las Vegas, draw people from across the continent to spin the wheel of fortune.
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We looked up at the massive museum, an exquisite neo-Romanesque exercise in pink brownstone and granite, with a sweeping stone staircase and an overscaled Beaux-Arts monument to Theodore Roosevelt.
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We do not usually link to reports which are mostly pictorial, but the images of the ordinations celebrated last Sunday by the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X FSSPX / SSPX, Bishop Bernard Fellay, at the austere Romanesque abbatial church of the Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of Bellaigue are truly beautiful and deserve to be seen.
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As far as the historical aspects are concerned, it is necessary to mention the Romanesque Baptistry and the adjacent cupelled boulder with Celtic engravings.
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Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
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Further south the Romanesque architecture is traditional but strongly tinged with classical forms from Rome.
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The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.
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The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault, a clerestory but no triforium.
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The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
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The symmetry, smooth finish of the stones, and the perfectly proportional square belltower with Romanesque arcades creates a pleasing image of quiet unity.
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With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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In southern Italy there was a marriage of Byzantine and Romanesque styles, as can be seen at San Nicola in Bari and the duomos of Salerno, Amalfi, Troia, Trani, Molfetta and Bitonto.
