ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Magda Kuthanová

Luis Fernando Cocom Briceño

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

semi-circular arches over windows and doors.

Other doors have a lintel (dintel) set into a large arched recess (hueco) and surmounted by a semi-circular "lunette„ (media luna) with decorative carving (talla)

groin vaults ( bóveda de artista)

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Barrel vaults (bóveda de cañón)

massive quality thick walls sturdy piers (pilares

robustos) that would support the round arches

(arcos de medio punto)

Capitals (capiteles) would often form the topmost part of the columns and piers.

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Capitals (capitales) were inspired by the foliate (follaje) Corinthian style – round at the bottom and square on the top, but with variable carving (talla)

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Both piers and columns are common

piers

columns

large towers

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

decorative arcading (arcada)

(succesion of arches)

Domes (cúpulas)

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

generally of flat square profile and do not project a great deal beyond the wall.

A buttress (contrafuerte ) is an architectual structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall

Buttress in Romanesque style

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Each building has clearly defined forms frequently of very regular, symmetrical plan; the overall appearance is one of

simplicity compared with the Gothic buildings 

Lessay Abbey, Normandy Reims CathedralROMANESQUE GOTHIC

aisless halls (sin naves laterales ) with a projecting apse (ábside)at the chancel (presbitorio) end.

aisles separated from the nave by

APSE is the semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a churchIt is where the altar is placed or where the clergy are seated. The apse is separated from the main part of the church by the

The NAVE (nave) is the main body of the church

THE PLAN (PLANO)

ARCADES (arcadas)

TRANSEPT (transepto/crucero)

THE PLAN (PLANO)

Christian churches have the form of a

Latin Cross

three-stage elevation in which there is a gallery, known as a triforium (triforio), between the arcade and the clerestory (claristorio) 

Triforium - a shallow arched gallery within the thickness of inner walls

Clerestory – any windows above the eye level  that bring light and air inside the nave

VAULTS

APSE

NAVE

PIERS

AISLE

CAPITALS

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris

ARCADE

TRIFORIUM

CLERESTORY

NOW, TRY IDENTIFYING THE LEARND FEALUTERS USING THE AUGMENTED REALITY MODELS:

Mont St. Michel Brunelleshi‘s CathedralDome of Florence