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

Commissions for “fireproof” public buildings poured in, and his mostly Romanesque revival designs soon dotted the state.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

POUNDBURY, England — On Queen Mother Square in Poundbury, a quaint town in southern England, sits a huge neo-Classical apartment block, painted bright yellow and decorated with Romanesque columns.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

The house — a mix of Renaissance classicism, Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts — had everything that she and her husband were looking for: a fireplace, a garage, the right number of rooms and bathrooms.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

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