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ROMANESQUE [9 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
  • Architectural Design
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
DEF

conical roof : A roof with a circular plan that tapers upward to a point; used for round towers in the Romanesque Revival style.

CONT

The turret is reminiscent of Victorian architecture yet the candlesnuffer roof is not all that common to American architecture ... The candlesnuffer roof was most frequently found in Germany, Austria and northern European or alpine areas. Its severe pitch sheds water and snow well and the form was introduced into this area by the Pennsylvania Germans and Dutch in the 17th Century.

CONT

The great sloping roof is punctured by a massive tower with a candle-snuffer roof.

OBS

candlesnuffer: A projecting, three-quarter round turret with a conical roof, with the base of the turret starting above the ground level; the shape of the turret approximates that of a traditional candlesnuffer with a conical top.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
  • Conception architecturale
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Petit toit conique et pointu qui couronne une tourelle.

CONT

Le Vieux Chapitre est un parallélogramme de taille imposante : 26 m de longueur sur 13 m de largeur. Il est flanqué d'une tourelle à toit conique à chacun de ses angles.

OBS

Le terme «poivrière» désigne également «une petite tourelle à toit conique et en encorbellement accrochée à un mur».

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
DEF

An almond-shaped motif in which Christ sits; sometimes used also for the Virgin.

CONT

In most Romanesque churches, the vault of the half-domed apse is adorned with a Christ in majesty, that is to say sitting on a throne surrounded or inscribed in an almond-shaped glory known as a mandorla. Christ is sometimes replaced by a Virgin in majesty. Generally, the mandorla is surrounded by the animals of the Apocalypse(the four Living Creatures) symbolising the four Evangelists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
DEF

Encadrement ou gloire de forme ovale ou en amande, soupent disposé dans l'iconographie et les bas-reliefs religieux, autour du Christ transfiguré.

CONT

Dans la plupart des églises romanes la voûte en cul-de-four de l'abside est ornée d'un Christ en majesté, c'est-à-dire assis sur un trône entouré d'une gloire lumineuse en forme d'amande appelée mandorle. Le Christ est quelquefois remplacé par la Vierge en majesté. Généralement, la mandorle est encadrée par les animaux de l'Apocalypse (les quatre Vivants) qui symbolisent les quatre évangélistes.

CONT

Au milieu des arcatures, une belle sculpture en haut-relief représente la Vierge à l'Enfant dans une gloire en forme d'amande, ou mandorle, portée par quatre anges.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Elements
DEF

A projecting band with a bottom molding edged in the form of a continuous undulating curve with a series of symmetrical inward and outware bulbous shapes; ...

OBS

nebulé, nebuly... from the heraldic term for a line of this shape; used in Romanesque Revival style architecture.

Key term(s)
  • nebulé molding
  • nebuly molding
  • nebule molding
  • nebulé moulding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'architecture
DEF

Ornement typique de l'époque romane, formé d'une ou plusieurs lignes ondulantes régulières.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Practice
CONT

From the Romanesque period(11C-12C) remain parts of walls with small cubic bond and average-sized regular ranged bond : sides of the southeast and southwest parts of the upper wall.

OBS

bond: Refers to the pattern formed by mortar joints between bricks, blocks or stones.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maçonnerie
DEF

Appareil dont les éléments ont une tête carrée ou à peu près carrée.

OBS

appareil : Disposition que l'on donne aux pierres et aux briques dans la construction d'un mur, d'un arc, d'une voûte.

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

A pillar in the center of a Romanesque or Gothic portal.

CONT

That [i.e., the portal] of the south transept, la Porte de la Vierge dorée, has on the trumeau or central pier the figure ... of the Virgin smiling at the Child on her arm ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

Pilier médian d'un large portail (souvent orné d'une statue) qui sert à soulager le linteau. Il partage la porte en deux ouvertures.

CONT

Mais l'utilisation d'un support médian, le trumeau, devrait permettre d'augmenter de manière significative le diamètre des tympans [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

The style current in Europe from about the ninth century until the advent of Gothic [in the middle of the 12th century].

CONT

Romanesque architecture.... Some experts place its origins in the C7, others in the C10 : the former view includes CAROLINGIAN in Romanesque architecture, the latter places the beginning of Romanesque at the time of the rising of the Cluniac Order in France and the Ottoman Empire in Germany. The first view also includes Anglo-Saxon architecture, the second identifies the Romanesque in Britain with the Norman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

(...) art européen des Xe, XIe et XIIe siècles. On le considérait comme une dérivation de l'art romain (...) il y a des éléments romains dans le roman, mais il y a aussi des éléments byzantins qui sont eux-mêmes une transformation du langage esthétique de Rome.

OBS

Division des styles : Ve au Xe siècle : Architecture latine ou préromane, se subdivisant en France, en architecture mérovingienne et carolingienne; XIe au XIIIe siècle : Architecture romane (...) On a distingué l'architecture romane en romane primordiale ou latine (IVe au XIe s.) et en romane secondaire (XIe et XIIe s.).

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
  • Architecture
DEF

A concave spandrel leading from the angle of two walls to the base of a circular dome. It is one of the means by which a circular dome is supported over a square or polygonal compartment and is used in Byzantine and occasionally Romanesque architecture and often in Renaissance, Baroque and later architecture.

CONT

But the intermediary zone of the pendentives, contrary to all expectation, is organized by three large arches, one of which rises above the wide bay while each of the two others spans two bays by skipping one pilaster.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
  • Architecture
DEF

Portion de voûte appareillée ou maçonnée liaisonnant le carré du mur à la coupole.

DEF

Paroi incurvée d'allure triangulaire correspondant au passage du plan carré ou polygonal des appuis d'une voûte sphérique au plan circulaire de cette voûte.

CONT

Saint-Laurent s'éloigne davantage de Borromini : les effets d'optique y interfèrent avec les variations géométriques. La nef est au ras du sol, une sorte de carré, au niveau de l'entablement, un octogone, à l'étage des pendentifs, une croix grecque.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estilos arquitectónicos
  • Arquitectura
DEF

Cada uno de los triángulos esféricos que forma el anillo de base de la cúpula con los arcos torales en los que apoya.

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Record 8 1986-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Architectural Styles
CONT

The great Early Gothic cathedrals are Sens, c. 1140 etc. ;Noyon, c. 1150 etc. ;Laon, c. 1160, etc. ;Paris, 1163 etc. They have the sexpartite rib vaults of Caen and show a development to higher proportions, thinner members, larger openings, and less inert wall [than the earlier Romanesque architecture].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Styles en architecture
CONT

le gothique primitif (fin du XII siècle) : constructions à plusieurs étages avec tribunes, triforium et rangée de fenêtres (...). Les cathédrales de Laon [1160-1225) et de Noyon furent ainsi bâties dans ce style.

Spanish

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Record 9 1983-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a variety of Romanesque style of architecture introduced into Great Britain by Normans

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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