Romanesque Architecture in Churches
Ecclesiastical Architecture : Romanesque Humanity has been long a great admirer of architecture for diverse reasons. In scattered regions of the world, people designed buildings that suited their needs. Curiously, some buildings manifested similar patterns in certain periods of time and became the norm. Unless a critical architect devised his or her own style, those norms persisted and improved further. Today, we call such stylistic approaches architectural styles, and they are employed even today. The world abounds in them: Classical, Romanesque, Baroque, Gothic, Neo-Classical, Brutalist, Beaux-Arts, Rococo, Renaissance, etc. Nevertheless, the turbulent clash between schismatic Gothic and conventional Romanesque styles must be, to my probably defective mind, the most phenomenal watershed in the history of architecture. In order to fathom this epic breakaway that took place in the 12th century, one must know both architectures in depth. In this case, I reckon that it ...