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    Romanesque architecture used separate compartments with mostly barrel vaults and rounded arches, thick walls, and small windows, resulting in a horizontal and modest structure. Gothic architecture featured unbroken interior spaces with groin vaulting, pointed arches, exterior flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows, creating a vertical and soaring interior filled with light.

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    Romanesque architecture used separate compartments with mostly barrel vaults and rounded arches, thick walls, and small windows, resulting in a horizontal and modest structure. Gothic architecture featured unbroken interior spaces with groin vaulting, pointed arches, exterior flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows, creating a vertical and soaring interior filled with light.

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    Romanesque architecture used separate compartments with mostly barrel vaults and rounded arches, thick walls, and small windows, resulting in a horizontal and modest structure. Gothic architecture featured unbroken interior spaces with groin vaulting, pointed arches, exterior flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows, creating a vertical and soaring interior filled with light.

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    ROMANESQUE

    VS. GOTHIC
    ARCHITECTURE

    Sana Ahrar
    B.Arch III Year

    History of Architecture

    ROMANESQUE VS. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

    Romanesque

    Gothic

    Separate compartments.

    Unified, unbroken space.

    Mostly barrel-vaults, some groinvaults.

    Groin-vaulted cathedrals.

    Rounded arches.

    Pointed arches.

    Thick walls, buttresses.

    Exterior flying buttresses.

    Small windows.

    Large stained-glass windows.

    Horizontal, modest height.

    Vertical, soaring.

    Plain, little decoration, solid.

    Ornate, delicate, lots of sculpture.

    Radiating chapels and


    apse:

    Vault:

    Arch type:
    Main vault support:

    Clerestory:

    Elevation:

    Exterior:

    Thin, elongated, abstract figures.

    More realistic proportions and


    individualized features.

    Dark, gloomy.

    Tall, light-filled.

    St. Sernin, Toulouse, France.

    Chartres Cathedral, France.

    Sculptural decoration:

    Mood:

    Example:

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