Architecture in the Middle Ages

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Architecture in the Middle Ages
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Buildings

• Most buildings were churches or cathedrals
• Some castles were built, but were far outnumbered
  by churches
• Other buildings built in the middle ages include
  palaces, universities, town halls, guild halls,
  and occasionally private homes

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Romanesque Style

• First style of architecture after Roman empire
  collapsed
• Combined Byzantine and Western Roman buildings
• Started around the year 500
• Had thick walls and large towers
• Had many arches in the buildings that were
  semicircular rather than pointed
• Roofs were arched and semicircular and called
  Barrel or Tunnel vaults

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Romanesque Style Pictures
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Gothic Style

• Evolved from the Romanesque style of architecture
• Started around year 1100
• Had many towers, wider windows, pointed arches,
  rib vaults and flying buttresses
• Very tall buildings
• Rib Vaults are several Barrel Vaults intersecting

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Gothic Style Pictures