ROMANESQUE - History 5

Romanesque Architecture

What term that is used to describe the architecture of Medieval Europe?

Trumeau

What do you call the supporting column between double doors?

Tympanum

What do you call a lunette above the door that was ornamented with complex iconography?

Enlarging of Nave and stone structure Basilica

What are the 2 greatest innovations in Romanesque architecture?

Triforium

What is a gallery or arcade above the arches of a church's nave, choir, and transepts?

Groin Vaults, Large towers, and thick walls

What is Romanesque architecture known for? (Cite at least 1)

Arcading

What is a row of arches?

Blind Arcading

What is an arcade (a series of arches) that has no actual openings for wall decoration purposes?

Buttresses

What flat, square-profiled feature in Romanesque architecture projects minimally from the wall, unlike in Gothic design?

Semi-circular arch, segmented arch, stilted arch, and horseshoe arch

What are the 4 types of arch present in Romanesque period?

Semi-circular arch

What type of arch that forms a half circle?

Segmented arch

What type of arch has a circular arc of less than 180 degrees, struck from one or more centers below the springing line?

stilted arch

What type of arch resting on imposts is treated as the downward continuation of the archivolt?

horseshoe arch

What type of arch has an intrados that widens above the springing point before narrowing to a rounded crown?

Lombard band

What is a decorative blind arcade, usually located on the exterior of a building?

Reliquaries

What do you call a container for holy relics?

Bayeux Tapestry

What tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings?

Westwork

What is a monumental west entrance of church tall façade with towers present in Romanesque church?

Monasteries

What building used to house a room reserved for prayers, domestic quarters and workplaces for monks or nuns?

Atrium

What do you call a forecourt surrounded or flanked by porticoes in Romanesque architecture?

Santiago de Compostela

What Romanesque church was used as a pilgrimage destination for Paul's pilgrimage?

Pisa Cathedral

What Romanesque church known for its leaning tower?

Durham Cathedral

What Romanesque church is known for its rib vaulting?

Barrel, Groin, Ribbed, and Pointed arched Vault

What are the 4 types of vaults used in Romanesque architecture?

Corinthian, Cushion, and Scalloped Capital

What capital was used and inspired for many Romanesque architecture?

Alteration

What common feature in Romanesque buildings, seen in both churches and castle arcades, is the alternation of piers and columns?

Piers

What is the upright support for a structure, such as arches, with vertical shafts and horizontal moldings at the base?

limestone, granite, and flint

What materials used in Romanesque buildings?

Pointed Arched Vault

What type of vault used for regulating the height of diagonal and transverse ribs?

Scalloped capital

What type of cushion capital with the lunette on each face cut into a series of truncated cones to form a scallop shell-like decoration?

Nailheads

What moulding featured a series of small

contiguous projecting pyramids?

Church of S. Miniato

What Romanesque church has a wooden roof, but its interior is elaborately decorated with black and white marble in a geometric pattern?

Austria Romanesque Folding Chair

What is an X-shaped stool for women in the Romanesque period with implied authority?

Trestle table

What is a table supported by trestles at each end and sometimes in the middle?

Stanley bed

What do you call a bed with a headboard featuring 12 carved panels and a grapevine scroll design?

Turned posts and turned spindles

What are the common characteristic features of Romanesque furniture?

Tie beam

What is a horizontal beam that serves to prevent two other structural members from separating?

Romanesque furniture design

What furniture design style that features 12th-century representations in French sculpture and schematic interpretations of Greco-Roman ornament?