HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IV

MEDIEVAL (ROMANESQUE) ARCHITECTURE

Lecture 01

Tutor: Safiya MD
LECTURE 1 - OUTLINE

• Romanesque Art and Architecture

 Development
 Expansion
• Characteristics
• Building Typologies
• Examples in Italy
ROMANESQUE ART & ARCHITECTURE
• It started during the middle age
• It was the first style all over the Europe.
• Romanesque architecture is inspired by Roman Architecture
• It can be characterized by round arches, stone materials & basilica type plan.
• In between 1075-1125 AD
CHARACTERISTICS
• Proportions- harmonious
• Vaulting system- barrel and groin
vault
• Thick and heavy walls and pillars.
• Small windows
• Round arches supporting the roof
• Blind arches- decorative purpose
• Galleries above the side aisles
• A transept, an apse, ambulatory.
• Multiple towers , usually at the
west end and the transept crossing
• Sculptural decoration on portals,
capitals and other surface
• Painted decoration through out the
interior
BUILDING TYPOLOGY
ROMANEQUE CHURCH
ROMANEQUE CHURCH
ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE_PISA CATHEDRAL COMPLEX, ITALY
ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE_PISA CATHEDRAL COMPLEX, ITALY
ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE_
PISA CATHEDRAL COMPLEX, ITALY
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
PISA CATHEDRAL_ 1063
BAPTISTERY_ 1153
BAPTISTERY_ 1153
CAMPANILE BELL TOWER_ 1174
CAMPANILE BELL
TOWER_ 1174
CAMPO SANTO_ 1278
CAMPO SANTO_ 1278
 REFERENCES
1. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of
Architecture, Twentieth Edition, 1996

2. Spiro Kostof, History of Architecture: Settings

and Rituals, 1995

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