1. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE
Magda Kuthanová
Luis Fernando Cocom Briceño

2. 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)

3.  groin vaults
( bóveda de artista)
ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE
 Barrel vaults (bóveda
de cañón)

4.  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

5. 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

6.  large towers
ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE
 decorative arcading (arcada)
(succesion of arches)
 Domes (cúpulas)

7. 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

8. 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 Cathedral
ROMANESQUE GOTHIC

9.  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 church
It is where the altar is placed or
where the clergy are seated. The
apse is separated from the main
part of the church by theThe NAVE (nave) is the
main body of the church
THE PLAN (PLANO)
ARCADES (arcadas)
TRANSEPT (transepto/crucero)

10. 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

11. VAULTS
APSE
NAVE
PIERS
AISLE
CAPITALS
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris
ARCADE
TRIFORIUM
CLERESTORY

12. NOW, TRY IDENTIFYING THE
LEARND FEALUTERS USING THE
AUGMENTED REALITY MODELS:
Mont St. Michel Brunelleshi‘s Cathedral
Dome of Florence