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Patricia Vasquez                           03-13-2013

Art 11 blog#5

One of the buildings that show how elements of gothic style envolved

From Romanesque precursors is the abbey church of saint-etienne at 

caen. In gothic architecture the rib vault replaces the earlier barrel 

vaults of Romanesque. In Romanesque archictecture thick walls 

performed the fuction of buttressing ,also an inference may be the 

pointed arches, which is a .characteristic and essential feature of gothic 

architecture. It also can be said as the intersection of two arcs of 

nonconcentric circles. Examples  are found in Romanesque buldings,

but in a much more tentative form. The  sculptural decoration of 

Romanesque architecture, like mural and manuscript painting

Continues the medieval taste for flat space inorganic figures

And lively decorative stylization at the beginning of the late 20^th century

Gothic architects would expand the scale of the cathedrals. In 

Conclusion I stongly believe that theres similarities among the 

Romanesque and gothic arch because of their sculpturing painting and 

Architectural they both very splendid.