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    As the Roman Empire fell and the Dark Ages began, the early Christian church gained control of Europe and the Romanesque architectural style emerged, drawing on Roman, Byzantine, and biblical influences. Romanesque churches and castles dominated the landscape during the Middle Ages. Romanesque architecture was characterized by thick walls, round arches, barrel vaults, towers, and ornamentation combining Roman and Byzantine aspects. Churches followed a Latin cross floor plan with areas like the apse, ambulatory, and transept serving ritual purposes. Sculptures sometimes depicted biblical scenes on walls.

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    As the Roman Empire fell and the Dark Ages began, the early Christian church gained control of Europe and the Romanesque architectural style emerged, drawing on Roman, Byzantine, and biblical influences. Romanesque churches and castles dominated the landscape during the Middle Ages. Romanesque architecture was characterized by thick walls, round arches, barrel vaults, towers, and ornamentation combining Roman and Byzantine aspects. Churches followed a Latin cross floor plan with areas like the apse, ambulatory, and transept serving ritual purposes. Sculptures sometimes depicted biblical scenes on walls.

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    As the Roman Empire fell and the Dark Ages began, the early Christian church gained control of Europe and the Romanesque architectural style emerged, drawing on Roman, Byzantine, and biblical influences. Romanesque churches and castles dominated the landscape during the Middle Ages. Romanesque architecture was characterized by thick walls, round arches, barrel vaults, towers, and ornamentation combining Roman and Byzantine aspects. Churches followed a Latin cross floor plan with areas like the apse, ambulatory, and transept serving ritual purposes. Sculptures sometimes depicted biblical scenes on walls.

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    As the Roman Empire fell apart and the Dark Ages began, the early Christian church

    and its political allies acquired control of medieval Europe, giving birth to the

    Romanesque style. Romanesque churches and castles dominated the Middle Ages

    landscape, drawing inspiration from Roman architecture, Byzantine art, and biblical

    accounts about Christ's life. While some Christians had been monks for centuries,

    monastic orders increased dramatically between the end of the 10 and the beginning of

    the eleventh centuries.

    Although Romanesque architecture was austere, it was still awe-inspiring because to its

    outstanding architectural qualities. Romanesque architecture is distinguished by its

    substantial quality, thick walls, round arches, powerful pillars, barrel vaults, towering

    towers, and ornamental arcading, which combine aspects of ancient Roman and

    Byzantine buildings as well as other local traditions.This architectural style's huge

    structures are supposed to both terrify and inspire. Stone buttresses protrude off the

    structures to give their massive walls even greater girth, while towers with octagonal

    spires stretch toward the heavens. All of this vastness contrasts sharply with the

    Romanesque art style's modest stained-glass windows showing biblical subjects

    spanning from Christ's birth to the Last Judgment. The majority of Romanesque

    cathedrals were designed with floor plans in the format of a Latin cross. Many of the

    stations in these schematics were given archaic names: the apse (a dome or half dome

    at the front of the auditorium, usually containing religious art), ambulatory (a walkway),

    tympanum (a semicircular area above a door or window, usually enclosing a sculpture),

    transept (a horizontal section of a cathedral that ran across the ambulatory to form a

    cross), and more; to serve specific tasks in ancient church rituals. To instill a greater
    sense of reverence, Romanesque sculptures portraying biblical scenes were

    occasionally engraved onto the walls. The rounded arches of Romanesque architecture

    are perhaps one of the most noticeable differences between them and Gothic

    architecture. Semicircular barrel vaults, a lengthy succession of arches positioned next

    to each other, are commonly used to enclose long passageways in this architectural

    style. Groin vaults are formed by combining barrel vaults into a square configuration. In

    favor of pointed arches, commonly referred to as ribbed vaults, Gothic architects

    departed from this Romanesque element. These arcing arches were supported by

    columns that wouldn't have looked out of place in ancient Rome in every case.

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