Discuss the various aspects of the Romanesque church.
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- The barrel vault is one of the distinctive features of Romanesque architecture. Barrel vaults are elongated arched masonry structures spanning an interior space and shaped like a half-cylinder. They had been used in the Roman Empire. In Romanesque churches, the space created by such vaults was designed to raise the worshiping pilgrims' eyes and thus direct their thoughts toward heaven.
- The nave is divided into sections, called bays, by the round arches of the vault. At Vézelay, these arches are constructed of alternating pink and gray stone voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that form the arch, quarried locally.
- The space created under the portal arch, called the tympanum, was filled with sculptural relief.
- All the elements of Romanesque portals were equally subject to decorative relief: the lintel; the jambs (the vertical elements on both sides of the door supporting the lintel or arch); the trumeau (the column or post in the middle of a large door helping to support the lintel); and the archivolt (the curved molding formed by the voussoirs making up the arch).
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