Rooted in the pre-Gothic architecture of medieval Europe, the Romanesque Style first came to America in the 1840s and 1850s. Romanesque buildings emphasized rough stone, dramatic arches ...

It evolved from its heavier, rounder predecessor, Romanesque architecture, capitalizing on newly available technology to create taller, lighter, pointier structures with complex ornamentation.

Young people on these campuses say they desire to encounter the faith and to evangelize through beauty and in accordance with ...

Built of stone in the monumental Romanesque style, Saint- Sernin is faced with mellow brick, a local feature of Toulouse architecture. Christian Europe experienced an upsurge in confidence in the ...

Catholic liberal arts colleges have turned toward traditional architecture when expanding to accommodate the numbers. Here ...

Architects did this by circumventing many of the “rules” previously established in Romanesque architecture, which had been widespread in the decades before and has roots in Greek and Roman ...

The narrow valley is surrounded by steep mountains and each of the villages in it contains a Romanesque church. As a group, these churches represent an especially pure and consistent example of ...