Romanesque Architecture

During the time of the Roman empire, the Romans took over Greece. They adopted many ideas from the Greeks. The Romans added many ideas of their own to the architecture. they used semicircular arches, domes, vaults, and invented two new types of pillars. One new column was the Tuscan. It was like the Doric order (see Greek Architecture), but it had a base and no designs above the capital (top). The other type of column was the Composite. Those pillars has scroll-like decorations on top of carved out acanthus leaves(Fletcher, 15).

The Romans built amphitheaters, baths, aqueducts, temples, basilicas (multipurpose halls), ...