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Architecture of a Romanesque style developed simultaneously in parts of France in the 10th century and prior to the later influence of the Abbey of Cluny.The style, sometimes called "First Romanesque" or "Lombard Romanesque", is characterised by thick walls, lack of sculpture and the presence of rhythmic ornamental arches known as a Lombard band.
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Plantagenet Style since 1148, western France; Southern plantation architecture; Ponce Creole 1895–1920 Ponce, Puerto Rico; Pombaline style 1755 earthquake – c. 1860 Portugal; Postmodern architecture 1980s; Polish Cathedral Style 1870–1930; Polite architecture; Prairie Style 1900–1917 US; Pueblo style 1898–1990s; Shingle Style 1879 ...
French Gothic architecture was the result of the emergence in the 12th century of a powerful French state centered in the Île-de-France.During the reign of Louis VI of France (1081–1137), Paris was the principal residence of the Kings of France, Reims the place of coronation, and the Abbey of Saint-Denis became their ceremonial burial place.
Some elements of architecture—open windows, loggias, and a vast outdoor area at the top—borrowed from the Italian Renaissance architecture—are less practical in cold and damp northern France. The elaborately developed roofline. The keep's façade is asymmetrical, with the exception of the north-west façade, latterly revised, when the two ...
Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
The Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI.French architectural styles before the French Revolution were governed by Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, by the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Category: Architecture in France by period or style. 24 languages. ... Romanesque Revival architecture in France (1 C, 10 P) S. Second Empire architecture (5 C, 30 P)