romanesque

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These children lived in the literal shadow of Florentine artistic genius: The building in which the Innocenti was housed is a particularly brilliant example of Romanesque architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Kathy: I don’t care if it’s French, Dutch or Romanesque, I’m going to wear a bathing suit top.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museum’s wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood