A Beginner's Guide To Romanesque Architecture (Article) - Khan Academy
A Beginner's Guide To Romanesque Architecture (Article) - Khan Academy
A Beginner's Guide To Romanesque Architecture (Article) - Khan Academy
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Romanesque architecture
After a gap of around two hundred years with no
large building projects, the architects of
Medieval churches:
sources and forms Charlemagne’s day looked to the arched, or
arcaded, system seen in Christian Roman edifices
Pilgrimage Routes and
the Cult of the Relic
as a model. It is a logical system of stresses and
buttressing, which was fairly easily engineered for
A look at modern large structures, and it began to be used in
veneration from the
British Museum gatehouses, chapels, and churches in Europe.
What were the crusades? These early examples may be referred to as pre-
Romanesque because, after a brief spurt of
How was crusading
justified? growth, the development of architecture again
lapsed. As a body of knowledge was eventually re-
The when, where and developed, buildings became larger and more
who of crusading
imposing. Examples of Romanesque cathedrals
from the early Middle Ages (roughly 1000-1200)
are solid, massive, impressive churches that are
often still the largest structure in many towns.
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