Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
During the Romanesque period, or roughly speaking, from the beginning of the eleventh to the middle of the twelfth century, three chief forms of vaulting were employed over the naves and aisles of church edifices. The first of these was the dome, the second the tunnel vault, a...
During the Romanesque period, or roughly speaking, from the beginning of the eleventh to the middle of the twelfth century, three chief forms of vaulting were employed over the...
4. CHAPTER IVIt is not the province of this essay to enter into a discussion of the origin of the ambulatory and its introduction into the church plan.[402] It is sufficient to note that a p...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe traditional method of terminating the church edifice at the end reserved for the clergy was by means of a semicircular or polygonal apse, and this method, which was of Roman...
2. CHAPTER IIBecause of the close resemblance in plan and structure between them, the transept was vaulted like the nave in by far the larger number of instances. Thus in the Romanesque scho...
5. Part II, p. 208). See also Enlart, I, p. 485, note 2.[453] Such chapels were frequently omitted all through both the Romanesque and Gothic periods even in churches with an ambulatory and were not therefore established parts of the...