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    Romanesque architecture developed in Western Europe between 1000-1200 AD following the Crusades. The Crusades exposed Europeans to Byzantine and Islamic architectural styles, bringing new decorative elements. Pilgrims traveling to holy sites helped spread architectural ideas. The style used local materials like stone, brick and wood. Churches were the dominant building type as Christianity was glorified. Arches and columns were defining features, with plans that often included a nave and side aisles.

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    Romanesque architecture developed in Western Europe between 1000-1200 AD following the Crusades. The Crusades exposed Europeans to Byzantine and Islamic architectural styles, bringing new decorative elements. Pilgrims traveling to holy sites helped spread architectural ideas. The style used local materials like stone, brick and wood. Churches were the dominant building type as Christianity was glorified. Arches and columns were defining features, with plans that often included a nave and side aisles.

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    Romanesque architecture developed in Western Europe between 1000-1200 AD following the Crusades. The Crusades exposed Europeans to Byzantine and Islamic architectural styles, bringing new decorative elements. Pilgrims traveling to holy sites helped spread architectural ideas. The style used local materials like stone, brick and wood. Churches were the dominant building type as Christianity was glorified. Arches and columns were defining features, with plans that often included a nave and side aisles.

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    Romanesque architecture developed in Western Europe between 1000-1200 AD following the Crusades. The Crusades exposed Europeans to Byzantine and Islamic architectural styles, bringing new decorative elements. Pilgrims traveling to holy sites helped spread architectural ideas. The style used local materials like stone, brick and wood. Churches were the dominant building type as Christianity was glorified. Arches and columns were defining features, with plans that often included a nave and side aisles.

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    ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

    THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE


    1000 – 1200 B.C.
    THE CRUSADES
    • Were a series of
    religiously sanctioned
    military campaigns
    waged by western
    Christian Europe
    • Objective: To restore
    Christian Control over the
    Holy Land
    • Effect: Brought about
    different movements
    resulting in “roman-like”
    decoration of buildings
    THE PILGRIMAGE
    – Long trips to visit the relics of Saints
    – Allowed for the exchange of ideas, including those
    of architecture and construction.
    – The Pilgrims’ way was filled with Romanesque
    churches, monasteries, inns, and castles.
     Romanesque = “Roman- like”
     This style grew in those countries of
    Western Europe which had been
    under the rule of Rome.
     With the church as the unifying force,
    this period was devoted to the
    glorification of Christianity and the
    church was the predominant building
    type.
    CLIMATE AND MATERIALS
    • Use of Local materials: • Climactic conditions
    contribute to differences of
    – Stone
    treatment north and south
    – Brick of the Alps & Pyrenees.
    – Marble
    – Terra-cotta • North – Window openings
    were enlarged
    – Ready- made
    - High pitched roofs
    columns
    South – small window
    openings
    - Flat Roofs
    ARCHES, COLUMNS, PLANS

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