ARCH 214bg Lecture 14: ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE
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In the west, constaninople coninued unil 1452, but the roman empire fell in 1435. Led to dark ages: a ime of violence, no law; roman empire was one of the greatest empires in history. In 768, charlemagne atempted to recover the glory and grandeur of rome by claiming he was the new emperor: shows how transient culture is. He tried to recover most of rome but it was all scatered empires" byzanine empire was compeing here; his capital is palaine chapel at aachen, germany. Combining the church and the state:; chrisianity was the religion at the end of the roman. Odo of metz is the architect of this martyrian building, which was converted into a church; similar to san. Vitale, but is not as beauiful or ornate. Deining feature of this ime: crusades (nine crusades led by kings and princes) Salah-ad-din tomb in damascus (saladin) was a famous leader.
