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Saint-Sernin
church, Toulouse, France
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- In Western architecture: Romanesque
1062–95), Saint-Sernin at Toulouse (1077 or 1082–1118), and the new cathedral at Santiago de Compostela itself (c. 1075–1211). This was a real family of buildings; each one had a splendid apse with ambulatory (a sheltered place to walk) and radiating chapels, a transept and nave with…
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… in Spain (begun 1078) and Saint Sernin at Toulouse (begun 1080). The cross vault raised on columns was seen again at Speyer Cathedral (1030–65, reconstructed c. 1082–1137) and Durham Cathedral (1093–1133), and the domes of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice (late 11th century) and the cathedral of Saint-Front in
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