ROMANESQUE

(Fr.) In Painting, appertaining to fable or romance. In historical painting, it consists in the choice of a fanciful subject, rather than one founded on fact. The rmnanesque is different from rmnantic; because the latter may be founded on truth, which the former never is. llomanesqtte, in Literature, is applied to the common dialect of Langue doc and some other districts in the south of France, which is a remnant of the old Rotnanee language, now nearly extinct. This term must not be confounded with Romaic, which is used to signify the language of modern Greece. ROMAN ORDER..Sre Composite Order. [s. 1077]