EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE


Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna, Italy, about 500-526






Torhalle (gatehouse), Imperial Abbey at Lorsch, 768-774 or later






Charlemagne's palace chapel, Aachen, Germany (=Aix-la-Chapelle in French), 792-805






Ideal monastery plan for St. Gall, Switzerland, about 820


 



Abbey church of St. Michael, Hildesheim, 1010 (Ottonian rather than Romanesque in sprit)








San Miniato al Monte, Florence, Italy, c. 1050-1150, transitional Ottonian-Romanesque: plan; facade; nave interior, with view to raised presbytery above and crypt below


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