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 ...

Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as it was known 850 years ago, is immensely popular among architectural historians. Broadcaster and art historian Dan Cruickshank appraises its on-screen ...