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Definition of Romanesque

1. Noun. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades.

Definition of Romanesque

1. a. Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.

2. n. Romanesque style.

Definition of Romanesque

1. Adjective. Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman Empire, but especially to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Romanesque

1. 1. Somewhat resembling the Roman; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but especially. To the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. 2. Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. Romanesque style, that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture. Origin: F. Romanesque; cf. It. Romanesco. Romanesque style. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Romanesque

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"—A Comparison of romanesque and Gothic Architecture.—The Celtic Influence on the Art of Northern Europe.—Graeco-Syrian Elements.—Influence of the Byzantine ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We must not infer from this, however, that in the romanesque period, as in the preceding, it was monks and clerics who were the principal manufacturers of ..."

3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"To that style, the Norman variety of romanesque, I that justice is seldom done. I claim for romanesque to be looked on, neither as debased Roman nor as ..."

4. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1909)
"The earliest form of romanesque is that treated in Book VII, ... Still these buildings are all romanesque, even those of the eastern empire with its tend- ..."

5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1909)
"The earliest form of romanesque is that treated in Book VII, ... Still these buildings are all romanesque, even those of the eastern empire with its tend- 1 ..."

6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"romanesque, ENGLISH. English romanesque, more commonly referred to by English authorities as the Norman style, was not wholly an innovation introduced by ..."

7. How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly (1921)
"There was never a distinct Cluny school of romanesque architecture. ... French romanesque architecture has been divided into some six or seven regional ..."

8. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period by Chandler Rathfon Post (1921)
"CHAPTER III romanesque SCULPTURE i. GENERAL CHARACTER OF romanesque SCULPTURE THE romanesque period witnessed the revival of monumental sculpture.1 Through ..."

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