Romanesque Revival
The Romanesque Revival style was a style popular in the late nineteenth century inspired by the style architectural book of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The distinguishing features most commonly used in neo-Romanesque buildings were barrel vaults , arched windows and semi-circular bands. Unlike the classical Roman style, this " eclecticism "novel tended to go to arches and windows simplified compared to their historical models.
This style was commonly used in the United States in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century architecture of courthouses and college campuses. In the latter case, the best known example is probably the University of California.
The neo-Romanesque style was also widely used to build churches, but also sometimes for synagogues , whose most notable example is probably the building of the Congregation Emanu-El in New York on Fifth Avenue , dating from 1929.
Far Henry Hobson Richardson is the American architect's largest and most influential who developed his own style based loosely on Roman architecture. United States even called " Richardsonian Romanesque "style derived from examples set by him.
In the UK , the Romanesque Revival style went through what we call today the Victorian architecture. The building of the Natural History Museum of London had to Alfred Waterhouse , built from 1873 to 1880 , will be one of the most significant example.
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In France , it Eugne Viollet-le-Duc who, following the publication of his Dictionary, is launching a sustained movement in favor of the vocabulary of medieval forms. With his knowledge of medieval styles, is engaged primarily in restaurants ( Basilica of St. Mary Magdalen of Vzelay , St. Sernin Basilica in Toulouse ), which often leads to the re-creation of models that have not existed before causing many followers. One example of this style is Dobre Museum at Nantes , built from 1862 to house the art collections of Thomas Dobre. A multitude of churches are built on models more or less interpreted novels, including a Roman-Byzantine style that will be a great success ( Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre in Paris by Paul Abadie , who took part in the restoration of Saint-Sernin). They include the church of St. Dionysius of Argenteuil (1862-1865), Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Villefranche-du-Perigord by Paul Abadie (1864-1869), the central post office in Metz , the Gare de Metz-Ville (1905-1908) ...
In the twentieth century , one can also cite the Church of St. Melaine, built in 1950 , by Canon Alphonse Thommerot at Rieux (Morbihan) , in a variant of neo-Romanesque style, but Breton.
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 Details of the neo-Romanesque capitol of the State of New York at Albany , built in Renaissance Revival style. |  The Royce Hall of University of California at Los Angeles (inspired by the Basilica of Saint Ambrose of Milan ). |  The Natural History Museum of London. |  The church of Saint-Melaine, Rieux (Morbihan). |
 The palace Dobre to Nantes. |  The neo-Romanesque bell tower (1876) of the Church of St. John the Baptist at Valence (Drme). |
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Source
- (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Romanesque Revival architecture "(see the list of authors )
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