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Romanesque Architecture

The document defines terms related to Romanesque architecture and provides a short history and overview. It discusses how Charlemagne's architects looked to Roman buildings as models after the fall of Rome. It also mentions the expansion of religious orders and pilgrimage routes influencing Romanesque architecture. The document outlines key elements of Romanesque architectural style and common sensations. It lists influential Romanesque architects and provides examples of their works from different periods and locations.

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Romanesque Architecture

The document defines terms related to Romanesque architecture and provides a short history and overview. It discusses how Charlemagne's architects looked to Roman buildings as models after the fall of Rome. It also mentions the expansion of religious orders and pilgrimage routes influencing Romanesque architecture. The document outlines key elements of Romanesque architectural style and common sensations. It lists influential Romanesque architects and provides examples of their works from different periods and locations.

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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

GROUP 5
DEFINITION OF TERMS
 Carolingian Architecture
 Ottonian Architecture
 Byzantine Architecture
 Monasticism
 Dark Ages
 Abbey
 Crusades
DEFINITION OF TERMS
 Feudal System
 Gothic Architecture
 Buttresses
 Arcades
 Piers
 Colonnettes
 Monolithic Columns
 Ashlar Masonry
DEFINITION OF TERMS
 Nave
 Triforium
 Transept
 Apse
 Ambulatory
SHORT HISTORY

Final defeat of Barbarian marauders by Emperor


Otto I

Creation of three distinct structures of Romanesque


architecture

Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in


8th century
SHORT HISTORY
Crowning of Charlemagne as the Holy Roman
Emperor in 8th century

Ending of the great invasions

To unite his empire, Charlemagne began building


churches in Roman style
SHORT HISTORY

Poverty during the fall of the Roman Empire

People in Mediterranean began building stone


houses

Europeans recovered from the fall of Rome


SHORT HISTORY

Wanted to build new structures

Charlemagne’s architects looked to the arched/


arcaded system in Christian Roman edifices as a
model

They began to use it


SHORT HISTORY

The monks of Cluny bought a church with a stone roof

Launching of Crusades to liberate the Holy Places in


Palestine

Retrieval of Holy Relics from the Holy Land


EXPANSION OF ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

 Feudal system

 Expansion of religious orders

 Pilgrimage routes

 Crusades
ELEMENTS OF STYLE
 Gives a statement of power and wealth
 Defensive and offensive
 Thick walls
 Flat-square buttresses
 Semi-circular openings
 Small and few doors
 With arcades, piers, and columns
 Alternation of piers and columns
ELEMENTS OF STYLE
 Wooden roof
 Nave with some aisles
 Galleries above the side aisles
 A transept, an apse, and an ambulatory around it
 Multiple towers
 Sculptured decoration on portals
 Latin cross plan
SENSATIONS
 Intimate sensation

 Stability

 Spiritual Sensation
PREVALENT ARCHITECTS

Bernard Ralph Maybeck Alfred Waterhouse


PREVALENT ARCHITECTS

Arnolfo di Cambio Henry Hobson Richardson


PREVALENT ARCHITECTS

Nicholas Hawksmoor Otto Koloman Wagner


PREVALENT ARCHITECTS

Louis Sullivan
SAMPLE WORKS

The First Church of


Christ, Scientist
Berkeley, California
Architect: Bernard
Maybeck
Style: Ecletic
Craftsman with
Romanesque and
Gothic motifs
SAMPLE WORKS

Museum of Natural History


London, England
Architect: Alfred Waterhouse
Style: Victorian German
Romanesque, Romanesque
Revival
SAMPLE WORKS

Orvieto Cathedral
Orvieto, Italy
Architect: Arnolfo Di Cambio
Style: Romanesque - Gothic
SAMPLE WORKS

Sever Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Architect: Henry Hobson
Richardson
Style: Richardsonian
Romanesque
SAMPLE WORKS

St. George in the East


Wapping, Stepney, England
Architect: Nicholas Hawksmoor
Style: Romanesque
SAMPLE WORKS

St. Leopold am Steinhof


Vienna, Austria
Architect: Otto Koloman
Wagner
Style: mixture of Classicism,
Romanesque, Greek
Orthodoxy, Arts and Crafts
SAMPLE WORKS

Babson House
Riverside, Illinois
Architect: Louis H.
Sullivan
Style: Eclectic
Romanesque Revival
SAMPLE WORKS

Trinity Church
Boston, Massachusetts
Architect: Henry Hobson
Richardson
Style: Richardsonian
Romanesque

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