Rooted in the pre-Gothic architecture of medieval Europe, the Romanesque Style first came to America in the 1840s and 1850s. Romanesque buildings emphasized rough stone, dramatic arches ...

This history of Romanesque architectural criticism examines seventeenth through early nineteenth-century commentary on medieval architecture and the naming of the Romanesque style. From the time of ...

Historian Darke (The Ottomans) offers a meticulous and piercing reassessment of the origins of the “Romanesque” style in medieval architecture. The Romanesque—long meant to evoke the revival ...