2 ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE Flashcards
The style which grew up on the decay of the Roman empire, and is known as ____
ROMANESQUE
(A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work)
monastic
9 Chief Monastic Orders
Benedictine Order
Cluniac Order
Cistercian Order
Augustinian Order
Premonstratensian Order
Carthusian Order
Military Order
Friars
Jesuits
In ______ the usual arrangement consisted of a square cloister.
Benedictine Order
a covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard.
square cloister
The plan was especially notable for double transepts, a feature which was adopted in many English Cathedrals, as at Lincoln and Salisbury.
Cluniac Order
Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey is an example of what order?
Benedictine Order
In plan, the typical church was divided into three parts transversely by screens, walls, or steps. There were frequently no aisles. The transepts were short, as also was the eastern arm of the cross, and the choir extended westward of the transepts. There was an absence of towers and painted glass.
Cistercian Order
The ______ differed little from the Benedictine.
Augustinian Order
The _______ was instituted at Premontre, in Picardy, in A.D. 1119, and Castle Acre Priory in England is an example.
Premonstratensian Order
In _________, two churches were preferred, one for the monks and the other for the people. In plan the typical feature was the great rectangular cloister, surrounded by an arcade on which the monks’ cells opened, each being self-contained and with its own garden.
Carthusian Order
The_______ included the Knights Templars and Hospitallers. The churches of the Templars were circular in plan, as in the Temple Church, London, and those at Cambridge, Little Maplestead, and Northampton.
Military Orders
The ______, of which there were several orders, were founded at a later period. Their churches were large, plain, and without aisles, being designed for preaching purposes.
Friars
The___ were established in order to crush the Reformation, and first came to England in A.D.
1538.
Jesuits
The general architectural character is _____ and ______.
sober
dignified
