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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE [5 records]

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Record 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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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