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Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic Art: Romanesque and Gothic.The structural design included large internal spaces which were topped by barrel vaults, piers and squat columns. The windo

Hi, need to submit a 500 words essay on the topic Art: Romanesque and Gothic.

The structural design included large internal spaces which were topped by barrel vaults, piers and squat columns. The windows and doors in the Romanesque style were made of round headed arches and most of the major churches are laid out on the basilica plan and are modified by the additions of buttresses,

transepts and towers (Banister 12).

The gothic art was a medieval art movement that urbanized in France hence it was fully developed in France and in England in the 12th century. By the 13th century, it had already spread all over Germany. Gothic art emerged out of the Romanesque art in the 12th century. The gothic art spread all over the Western Europe. The gothic sacred structural design is notable for its lightness (flying buttresses) and tall structures which were achieved through the development of firm architectural features which included pointed arches, corrugated vaults and traceried windows. It also had slender columns as opposed to huge and bulky ones (Banister 12).

The Aachen Cathedral was built by Charlemagne around 790 t0 800 AD. The Aachen Cathedral is building of architectural, great historical and religious. It has a unique design and was a site of imperial coronations and pilgrimage for many centuries. The building (as seen from pictures) has thick stone walls and mostly wooden roof and a few windows that rendered the building mostly dark in the inside. The building has round arches and monumental columns to hold the weight of the structure in a typically Romanesque style.

The Laon Cathedral is an example of a gothic architecture and dates back to the 12th and 13th century. The cathedral being of early gothic age, has pointed arches and less glass. it has four rose windows one in each of the four cardinal directions (Kenneth 24). The east front just above the main alter has a big rose window along with three huge lancets below it. The west window matches that of east in its structure while

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