Gothic Art
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Romanesque may first be sensed in new structural developments.. Sophisticated but unsatisfactory
attempts to vault the great basilican naves safely, with elements of
Roman, Byzantine, or Eastern origin, impelled progressive Romanesque
engineers, from about 1090 onward, to invent a new type of ri ....
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.... monks and, likewise, other conservative patrons in Germany,
Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Thus, buildings that were
essentially Romanesque in spirit continued to be built, even when such
extraordinary Gothic works as the Amiens cathedral were under
construction (begun 1220). (see also Index: Gothic architecture, music,
history of)
The development of proto-Romanesque in the Ottonian period culminated in
the true Romanesque style represented by five magnificen ....
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