Romanesque

A degenerated and hybrid style of architecture and ornament, transitional from the cla ical Roman to the introduction of the Gothic. In the architecture there is an incongruous combination of the horizontal and arched methods of construction; and in the ornament a similar di onance of natural and conventional or fanciful objects. Fairholt calls it the cla ic rococo. Fergu on ( Hist. of Arch., vol. i. p. 352) defines the Romanesque as “that modification of the cla ical Roman form, which was introduced between the reigns of Const an tine and Just in i an, and was avowedly an attempt to adapt cla ical forms to Christian purposes.” He says, “If Romanesque is to be applied to our Norman architecture, the Par the non ought to be called Egypt i anes que, and the Temple at Ephesus A yrianesque.” There seems to be no universally-received definition of this term.