Romanesque Synonyms

rōmə-nĕsk
A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Romanesque architecture

Words Related to Romanesque

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. 15th-century
  2. 13th-century
  3. 12th-century
  4. 14th-century
  5. mediaeval
  6. 16th-century
  7. gothic
  8. wall painting
  9. 17th-century
  10. mudejar
  11. fifteenth-century
  12. stone-sculpture

Romanesque Sentence Examples

  • Though the bishop's see was removed to Christiansand in 1685, the Romanesque cathedral church of St Swithun, founded by the English bishop Reinald in the end of the 11th century, and rebuilt after being burned down in 1272, remains, and, next to the cathedral of Trondhjem, is the most interesting stone church in Norway.

  • Gyula-Fehervar is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and has a fine Roman Catholic cathedral, built in the 1 nth century in Romanesque style, and rebuilt in 5443 by John Hunyady in Gothic style.

  • The principal portal is a fine specimen of 12th-century Romanesque, and the lower part of the nave is of the same period; the choir and the transept are striking examples of the style of the 13th century.

  • They had simply to make Saracen and Greek work in partnership. In England, on the other hand, the Normans did really bring in a new style of their own, their own form of Romanesque, differing widely indeed from the Saracenic style of Sicily.

  • This Norman form of Romanesque most likely had its origin in the Lombard buildings of northern Italy.

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