When1: 1050
When2: 1200
What: architect
Where: Europe
works\ Romanesque architecture [1050 to 1200]
Detail: Romanesque architecture depended on Roman architecture, with Byzantine and Islamic ornamentation. Romanesque churches had Romanesque arches. Vaulted roofs used stone masonry. Early Romanesque church vaults had groined cross vaults. Later Romanesque churches used ribbed groin vaults, to make wider and higher vaults. Vaults had solid, heavy walls. Exteriors had carvings and decorations. Church shapes were Latin crosses, with entrance facade, long nave, single transept, choir, and apse.
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