Download or read book Romanesque Architectural Criticism written by Tina Waldeier Bizzarro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Romanesque architectural criticism examines seventeenth through early nineteenth-century commentary on medieval architecture and the naming of the Romanesque style. From the time of Giorgio Vasari's Vite (1550) through circa 1818, the portmanteau Gothic often served as a blanket and dismissive term encompassing any non-classical architecture from the disappearance to the revival of the classical style in Renaissance Italy. A study of Romanesque criticism reveals the various stages in the understanding and naming of Romanesque architecture. This consolidation of literature on Romanesque architecture seeks to break ground and to prompt others to refine its conclusions.