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8 unusual facts about romanesque


Church of Sant'Angelo, Perugia

The architecture is an early Romanesque with Byzantine influences in the chapel placement, but the circular temple is something seen in other ancient churches in central Italy, including the church of Sant'Ercolano and of San Giovanni Rotondo in Perugia.

First Romanesque

Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch suggested that what was formerly considered the late form of pre-Romanesque architecture in Catalonia bore features of Romanesque and thus classified it as First Romanesque (primer romànic).

Groß Sankt Florian

Popular tourist attractions in the area include a Romanesque church from the 11th century and a museum of fire protection.

Romanesque

Romanesque architecture, architecture of Europe which emerged in the late 10th century and lasted to the 13th century

Romanesque art, the art of Western Europe from approximately AD 1000 to the 13th century or later

Romanesque Revival architecture, an architectural style which started in the late 19th century, inspired by the original Romanesque architecture

St Margaret's Church, Prestwich

In order to care better for the Simister end of the parish, a new church was designed by R. Basnett Preston in a combination of Romanesque and vernacular revival styles and built in 1915 on a site given by the V Earl of Wilton in Nutt Lane, Simister.

Toledo Harbor Light

Described as Romanesque, its style is unique among Great Lakes lighthouses.


Adelochus

He is buried in a Romanesque carved sarcophagus supported on couchant lions, and carved with figures in a blind arcade with the Saviour flanked by the kneeling bishop and an angel and in the two outermost panels, a man riding a fish and a man strangling two dragons.

Apse of Santa Maria d'Àneu

The Apse of Santa María d'Àneu is a romanesque apse of the church of Santa Maria d'Àneu, the transferred frescos from which are now exhibited at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona.

Baptistery

The circular domed Baptistry of St. John clad in white marble in the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, built in stages from 1150 and combining Romanesque with Gothic.

Braga Cathedral

The original 12th century-building was built in the Burgundian Romanesque style of the monastery church of Cluny.

Cenacle

Examples can be seen in the Romanesque cathedral in Bitonto, a small city near Bari, in southern Italy, and on column supports of the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, carved by Apulian-born sculptor Nicola Pisano around 1260.

Compton Potters' Arts Guild

The resultant Romanesque/Gothic revival exterior of the Watts Mortuary Chapel aroused such interest, that before work on the polychrome interior had started, Watts had set-up permanent Arts and Crafts communities in both Compton and her home-town of Aldourie, Scotland.

Confronted animals

Human figures are often treated in the same way, often mixed in with animals in decorative schemes - archers were especially popular in the Romanesque period.

Dannemare

Dannemare Church, also originally from the Romanesque period, was rebuilt in 1897 after a fire.

Eutropius of Saintes

Gregory of Tours mentions the tradition of Eutropius’ martyrdom in his work, but also notes that before Bishop Palladius of Saintes translated Eutropius’ relics around 590 to the Romanesque church of St. Eutropius in Saintes, no one really knew the legend of Eutropius.

Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.

Berlenbach Jr. became involved in designing Roman Catholic churches, specializing in the Romanesque style although also created designs influenced by Italian Renaissance later on.

Girona Cathedral

The church and its cloister were built until 1064, in Romanesque style.

Gniezno Doors

Monuments of Romanesque Art; The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe, Faber and Faber, 1974, ISBN 0-571-10588-2

Hartington City Hall and Auditorium

Architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson ascribes Steele’s use of Romanesque elements to an “attempt to personalize the Prairie School idiom” that began with Steele’s First Congregational Church (Sioux City, 1916–1918), where he notes that the “two different geometries are not resolved.”

Herefordshire School

Their distinctive Romanesque sandstone and limestone carvings are to be found in several parish churches in the area, most notably Kilpeck, but also Eardisley, Shobdon and Castle Frome in Herefordshire, and Rock, Worcestershire.

Hosín

Hosín is associated with the silhouette of Saints Peter and Paul Church seen from Českých Budějovic from 1899 to 1900, part of which is the original Romanesque church from the 12th to 13th centuries with unique Gothic wall paintings from around 1340

Huesca Cathedral

In the same period of the 15th century, thanks to the initiative of Pope Luna, Benedict XIII, part of a Gothic cloister was created, with the aim of restoring and replacing the old Romanesque one.

Hunseby

Dating at least from the middle of the 12th century, Hunseby Church has a Romanesque chancel and nave and a Gothic tower.

Hutton, Scottish Borders

The present Church, built in 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi, is an impressive Romanesque Revival edifice inspired by Norham Church (where Bonomi also worked).

John Forrest Dillon

A memorial fountain to Dillon was erected in downtown Davenport, Iowa in 1918, carved of Indiana limestone in Romanesque style, by sculptor Harry Liva.

La Guingueta d'Àneu

Apse of Santa Maria d'Àneu, a romanesque apse of the church of Santa Maria d'Àneu, the transferred frescos from which are now exhibited at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

Leopoldsberg

The Romanesque-Gothic basilica as well as the copper dome with the imperial crown can be seen.

Lisbjerg

Lisbjerg boasts a 12th-century church which housed a Romanesque golden altar.

Mariazell Basilica

This chapel sits on the site of the first "cell" and holds a Late Romanesque miraculous image of the Virgin Mary - the "Magna Mater Austria" - a 48 cm tall statuette made of linden.

Monastery of Sant Daniel, Girona

It has a cloister with two floors, the lower from the 13th century (with Romanesque decorations) and the upper, in Gothic style, from the 15th century.

Opus emplectum

The good example of this technique are ruins of the romanesque tower in Strzelno.

Oscar Cobb

Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, designed by architects James W. Martin and Oscar Cobb in Romanesque Revival style

Pinnacle

In the 12th-century Romanesque two examples have been cited, one from Bredon in Worcestershire, and the other from Cleeve in Gloucestershire.

Romanesque architecture

Other notable Romanesque baptisteries are that at Parma Cathedral remarkable for its galleried exterior, and the polychrome Baptistery of San Giovanni of Florence Cathedral, with vault mosaics of the 13th century including Christ in Majesty, possibly the work of the almost legendary Coppo di Marcovaldo.

Romano-Gothic

Combining ribbed vaults and the Romanesque tradition, the cathedrals of Angers (1149–1159) and Poitiers (1162) are examples of a primitive Gothic art, more austere and less well lit.

Rookery Building

As the master artisan, Root drew upon a variety of influences in designing the interior and exterior spaces, including Moorish, Byzantine, Venetian and Romanesque motifs.

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo

The building is often used as a symbol of the city: The design above the door to the Cathedral is part of the flag and seal of Sarajevo Canton and the Romanesque towers are featured on the flag and coat of arms of Sarajevo.

Saint-Ferme

The church features a 12th century nave and remarkably well-preserved Romanesque capitals, with themes such as Daniel in the Lions' Den and the Fall of Adam and Eve.

Seehausen, Leipzig

The first church was built in the 13th century, in the romanesque Choir tower.

Seeon Abbey

The Romanesque towers are reminiscent of Freising Cathedral and, like the Frauenkirche at Munich, have copper "onion towers", which were added after a fire in 1561.

Seoul Anglican Cathedral English Mission

The Cathedral was built in a Romanesque style with hints of Korean architecture and was designed by a British architect Arthur Dixon.

SoWa

The Romanesque and Gothic Revival structure was the world’s largest electrical power station at the time and later became a trolley barn.

St Mary's Church, Wilton

In 1845 a new Church of England parish church of St Mary and St Nicholas was built at the instigation of the Countess of Pembroke and her younger son Baron Herbert of Lea, designed by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt and D. Brandon in the Italianate Romanesque style, with considerable Byzantine influences.

St Medardus and St Gildardus Church, Little Bytham

The church also has several Romanesque details dating from the Norman era, including a Priest's Door ("uncommonly ornate", according to Nikolaus Pevsner) with a finely carved tympanum; the empty circular niche in the tympanum is said to have held a relic; the birds in roundels to either side are probably eagles, as one is legendarily supposed to have sheltered Medard from the rain.

St. Andreas, Hildesheim

The earliest church building on the Treibeinsel dedicated to the Apostle Andreas (Andrew) was a simple pre-Romanesque chapel, which already existed at the death of Bishop Bernward in 1022.

St. Longin's Rotunda

St. Longin's Rotunda (Prague, Na Rybníčku) is one of the few preserved romanesque rotundas in Prague.

Stubbekøbing

Stubbekøbing Church, built in the Romanesque style in the 13th century, has a Renaissance altarpiece and an elaborately carved pulpit as well as a variety of old frescos and wall decorations (1300–1500).

Tourism in Andorra

Romanesque churches and old houses of interest are located in Ordino, Encamp, Sant Julia de Loria, Les Escaldes, Santa Coloma, and other villages.

Tunø

Tunø church was most likely built in the 14th century in a Romanesque style, however it has undergone many refurbishments and now stands as a Gothic church with stepped gables or corbie steps.

Vall de Boí

The valley also contains the ruins of a number of other Romanesque religious buildings, including the churches of Sant Llorenç in Saraís and Santa Martí in Taüll, and the hermitages of Sant Cristòfol in Erill, of Sant Quirc in Taüll, of Sant Salvador in Barruera and of Sant Pere in Boí.

Villanueva de Sigena

The chapter house housed extremely important Romanesque frescos of about 1200 by largely English artists, probably including some of those who produced the Winchester Bible; this was only realized after their destruction.

William Tubby

The house that Tubby designed for Charles Millard Pratt at 241 Clinton Avenue (1893, located in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill Historic District) is one of the city’s finest examples of Romanesque revival architecture.


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