Material technique and a form of art.
Stone and brick buildings-examples.Catholic church built in the era of the beautiful Romanesque church with a rich, varied shapes. It was built primarily of stone moves (that is to say, equally obscuration sandstone blocks). The church was small, had a strong, compact build and thick walls with small windows. It can be said that the strongly committed to the earth. To all decided not only artistic beliefs of that era, but above all, the material used. Erecting the building was put on the stone, stone, you can not pile it up in any amount, because the walls in the end not presumably increasing burden. Also, too large windows obscurity construction. A good example is the church of Saint-Etienne in Severs. Gothic churches, built with bricks or stones can be build on the considerable amount, up to several dozen meters. The secret lay in the structure. First, put a powerful, solid frame of the building and then the empty spaces of the skeleton-filled bricks or stones, creating walls and vaults. Since the walls no Hedwiga not be able to use the weight of large windows. It should be mentioned as an example of the Virgin Mary Church in Gdansk.