Crossword-Solution: ROMANESQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Romanesque | a. | Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. |
| Romanesque | a. | Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. |
| Romanesque | n. | Romanesque style. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ROMANESQUE”
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| Architectural style of medieval Europe | 1 answer |
| Early second-millennium style | 1 answer |
| Pre-Gothic style | 1 answer |
| Style of architecture. | 8 answers |
| ENGLISH architecture | 12 answers |
| architectural style | 14 answers |
| ORDER (archit.) | 42 answers |
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Sentences with ROMANESQUE (5)
The Gothic building on your left is the gymnasium, and the Tudor Romanesque beside it is the new infirmary.' Oh, I'm fine at showing people about.
Their young minds were the repositories of an astounding amount of information: they knew who Charles the Bold was; they pointed out to their uncle the distinction between Gothic and Romanesque arches; they explained what was the matter with the Anabaptists; they told him that the story of the Bishop and the rats at Bingen was a baseless myth, and that probably there had never been any such man as William Tell.
The first transition from the basilica to the Gothic church is called the Romanesque, and was made after the fall of the Empire, when the barbarians had erected new kingdoms on its ruins; when literature and art were indeed crushed, yet when universal desolation was succeeded by new forms of government and new habits of life; when the clergy had become an enormous power, greatly enriched by the contributions of Christian princes.
One’s heart bleeds to see the way in which cells, cupboards, corridors, warders’ rooms, and halls devoid of light or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque--the three phases of ancient art--were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century.
And then the towers with high pinnacled roofs are a mistake,--unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole structure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed.
Quotes with ROMANESQUE (2)
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2017).