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