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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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