It’s still fairly dark, an architecture of walls and planes and volumes.” Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ...

The Romanesque buildings were coarse and dark, the Gothic ones gained lightness ... rather a transitional period between Romanism and mature Gothic. Certainly, the new trend in architecture dominated ...

What is revealed with the restoration of Gothic architecture is a newfound appreciation for the many colours that these buildings were painted with. Many parts of Gothic cathedrals — especially ...