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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE ROMANESQUE STYLE. Main characteristics Latin cross design Round arches Massive stone walls Enormous piers or pillars Great thick.

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1 MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE ROMANESQUE STYLE

2 Main characteristics Latin cross design Round arches Massive stone walls Enormous piers or pillars Great thick columns Small windows Gloomy interiors Simple ornamentation Interior stone sculpture depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament

3 Most important examples Monasteries Churches Houses of the Cluny ecclesiastical order

4 Maria Laach Abbey. 11th century. Western Germany

5 Saint Foy church, 12th century. France

6 Cistersian Abbey. 12th century. France

7 St. Etienne church. 11th century. Normandy, France

8 Iffley church. 12th century. Oxford, England.

9 Notre Dame de la Couldre. 12th century. Northern France

10 Interior of European monastery

11 European church. Massive pier

12 Great columns in the nave of Gloucester cathedral. England. 12th century

13 Norman columns in the ambulatory of St Bartholomew's (1123), LondonSt Bartholomew's

14 GOTHIC STYLE

15 Main characteristics Latin cross design Pointed arch Ribbed vaulting Flying butresses Rose windows Elaborated facades Multiple columns Gargoyles Stained glass (vitreaux) The Virgin Mary plays a prominent place in sculpture and satined glass

16 Ribbed Vaults

17 Flying butresses

18 Gargoyles

19 Rose window

20 Vitreaux

21

22 Notre Dame, Paris

23 Notre Dame Cathedral. Paris

24 Chartres Cathedral

25 Laon Cathedral, France

26 Saint Chapelle. Paris

27 Nuestra Señora de la Merced. Salta

28 Iglesia San Alfonso. Salta

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