Romanesque

Word ROMANESQUE
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Definitions and meanings of "Romanesque"

What do we mean by romanesque?

Somewhat resembling the Roman; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman Empire, but especially to the more developed art and architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.

Describes something or someone that's ancient or modern-Roman in style. Urban Dictionary

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The word "romanesque" in example sentences

Most often when we see a ciborium magnum today, it comes in the context of a classical or romanesque idiom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They went to Bayeux, not to see the tapestry, but to pay homage to oriental figures in the romanesque part of Bayeux cathedral. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While I admit to preferring a church by Pugin, or other cases of "revival" architecture which borrow from the baroque, gothic or romanesque as it was traditionally expressed, there are various elements in each of these churches which, I believe, are quite successful, appealing and well suited to the ceremonial life of the Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Le sentiment ‘minoritaire’ et identitaire dans la création romanesque de Myriam Anissimov.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paris: 1973; Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like good architecture in general from classical, pre-romanesque, romanesque to this. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Entitled Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque (1956), it questions the portrayal of the Shoah (with an all-too-often attendant kitschiness) by such world-renowned writers as William Styron and Heinrich Böll. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Altérité juive, altérite romanesque: Rachel (E. Foa) et Lavinia (G. Sand).” ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the popular imagination, such arches point upward to heaven, but in architectural terms their benefit was to carry weight downward -- and not outward, as do the round arches of a romanesque building. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Marvel at La Seo, the soaring cathedral of San Salvador, built between the 12th and 17th centuries and gracefully incorporating romanesque, Gothic, Mudéjar and baroque architecture. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It offers stunning views of some of city's most beautiful buildings: the mammoth French-colonial Post Office and the 19th-century neo-romanesque Notre Dame Cathedral, as well as some more recent glass-and-steel additions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While your here, could you do something with these right winged romanesque demi-gods in here? ❋ Unknown (2005)

We gorged like pigs on everything we could order from the fantastic menu and continued the romanesque decadence with ice cream for dessert. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)

Basin — what am I saying, Gilbert — would benefit by it, because I feel that even his claims to the throne of Naples and all that sort of thing would interest me if they were explained by you in old romanesque churches in little villages perched on hills like primitive paintings. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Similarly the aristocracy, in its heavy structure, pierced with rare windows, admitting a scanty daylight, shewing the same incapacity to soar but also the same massive and blind force as the architecture of the romanesque age, embodies all our history, immures it, beetles over it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A mile farther we had to bow or heads under corniced elliptic arches in the romanesque style; and massive pillars standing out from the wall bent under the spring of the vault that rested heavily upon them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“But, surely, Balbec church is partly romanesque, is it not?” ❋ Unknown (2003)

La Destinée féminine dans le roman européean du dix-huitième siècle 1713-1807: Essai de gynécomythie romanesque by Pierre Fauchery ❋ Moers, Ellen (1976)

René Rapin refers to poésie romanesque du Pulci, du ❋ REN (1968)

'Those [pillars] on [the senate] house are so [romanesque] ('roman-nesk').' ❋ DianaLuciusDeCollis (2022)

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