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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. ROMANESQUE STYLE. Main characteristics. Latin cross design Round arches Massive stone walls Enormous piers or pillars Great thick columns Small windows Gloomy interiors Simple ornamentation

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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

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  1. MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE ROMANESQUE STYLE

  2. Maincharacteristics • Latincrossdesign • Round arches • Massivestonewalls • Enormouspiersorpillars • Great thickcolumns • Small windows • Gloomyinteriors • Simple ornamentation • Interior stonesculpturedepictingscenesfromtheOld and New Testament

  3. Mostimportantexamples • Monasteries • Churches • Houses of the Cluny ecclesiasticalorder

  4. MariaLaachAbbey. 11th century. Western Germany

  5. Saint Foychurch, 12th century. France

  6. CistersianAbbey. 12th century. France

  7. St. Etiennechurch. 11th century. Normandy, France

  8. Iffleychurch. 12th century. Oxford, England.

  9. Notre Dame de la Couldre. 12th century. Northern France

  10. Interior of Europeanmonastery

  11. Europeanchurch. Massivepier

  12. Great columns in the nave of Gloucester cathedral. England.12th century

  13. Norman columns in the ambulatory of St Bartholomew's (1123), London

  14. GOTHIC STYLE

  15. Maincharacteristics • Latincrossdesign • Pointedarch • Ribbedvaulting • Flyingbutresses • Rose windows • Elaboratedfacades • Multiplecolumns • Gargoyles • Stainedglass (vitreaux) • TheVirgin Mary plays a prominent place in sculpture and satinedglass

  16. RibbedVaults

  17. Flyingbutresses

  18. Gargoyles

  19. Rose window

  20. Vitreaux

  21. Vitreaux

  22. Notre Dame, Paris

  23. Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris

  24. ChartresCathedral

  25. LaonCathedral, France

  26. Saint Chapelle. Paris

  27. Nuestra Señora de la Merced. Salta

  28. Iglesia San Alfonso. Salta

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