romanesque
罗马式的,罗马式,浪漫主义,罗曼蒂克
Definitions
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- : noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- : pertaining to or designating the styles of sculpture, painting, or ornamentation of the corresponding period.
- : of or relating to fanciful or extravagant literature, as romance or fable; fanciful.
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- : the Romanesque style of art or architecture.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The Victorian-Romanesque hotel, Mansion on Forsyth Park, equipped with modern luxuries, offers the best of both worlds.
The Romanesque-styled Neuschwanstein sits propped on the Bavarian countryside in a stately pose.
It is a building of the 12th century in the Romanesque style of Limousin, with three narrow naves of almost equal height.
A very modest Romanesque church laboriously hoists skyward a heavy stone belfry amid a clump of elm and nut trees.
In its illustrations may be recognised a series of good specimens of Romanesque forms.
Rome had succeeded to Greece as being the centre of Christian art, which assumed the phase commonly called the Romanesque.
A new style of architecture now arose, two forms of which, the Lombard and the Norman Romanesque, form important phases of art.