romanesque

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Beneath the ornately painted ceiling and romanesque arches that spring from huge marble columns, bodies fill every space on the rows of wooden benches.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2017

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2017

They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Notwithstanding the magnificence of its cathedral, we venture to say that there is nothing in all Rouen to compare with the norman romanesque of the latter towns.

From Normandy Picturesque by Blackburn, Henry

S. Jacopo, which still retains a fine romanesque arcade, was originally a foundation of the eleventh century.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward