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2. Oxford English Dictionary:
Romanesque means
origin …
"descended from
Roman”

3. * built in France, Germany
and Italy between AD 1000
and 1200
* known in Britain as
Norman Style
Roman architecture

4. The French term :
It was first used by an
archaeologist
Charles de Gerville in a letter of 18
December 1818 to Auguste Le
Prévost

5. • an architectur
al
style of mediev
al
Europe charact
erized by
semi-
circular arches
• was the first distinctive style to
spread across Europe since the Roman
Empire

6. Characteristics of a Romanesque
Architecture :
• Semi –circular arches
• Use of different vaults
• Buttresses
• Thick walls
• Latin cross plan, with several side
,aisles separated by arcades and
semicircular arches

7. Semicircular
Arches

8. Buttress (Contrafuerte)
- an architectural
structure built
against or projecting
from a wall

9. Romanesque Architecture
• Generally of flat square
profile and do not project
a great deal beyond the
wall.

10. Different Vaults

13. * Thick walls

15. Classical period
Medieval period

16. Columns are good at handling vertical
forces
Piers are good at
handling vertical
forces

17. Decorative
Arcading

19. Gothic Architecture :
• flourished during the high and late
medieval period
• known during the period as Opus
Francigenum ("French work")
• began in mid-18th-century England,
spread through 19th-century Europe
and continued, largely for ecclesiastical
and university structures, into the 20th
century.

20. Characteristics of Gothic Architecture• Grew out of Romanesque architecture
• Called Gothic by people during the Renaissance
who viewed Gothic as being crude and
backward like the Goths who invaded Rome
The 3rd-century
Great Ludovisi
sarcophagus
depicts a battle
between Goths
and Romans.

21. Characteristics of a Gothic
Architecture :
* Grand, Tall Designs, Which Swept
Upwards With Height and Grandeur.
* The Flying Buttress
* The Pointed Arch
* The Vaulted Ceiling
* The Light and Airy Interior
* The Gargoyles of Gothic
Architecture

22. *This menacing gargoyle in
Munich is a great example of
gothic architecture.
*Back in the
1100s-
1200s,
building skills
were
extremely
limited. Stone
castles were
rudimentary -
dark, cold,
and damp.

23. 1. Grand, Tall
Designs, Which
Swept Upwards
With Height and
Grandeur.

24. Gothic Architecture :
2. The Flying Buttress
It resist the
lateral forces
pushing a wall
outwards

25. The Flying Buttress

26. 3. The Pointed Arch
a pointed
arch
produces
less thrust
at the base

27. 4. The Vaulted
Ceiling

28. 5. The Light and
Airy Interior

29. 6. The Gargoyles of
Gothic Architecture

30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture
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