# Romanesque (ロマネスク) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.613 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/romanesque
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Romanesque, a style from Historical Styles, c. 1000–1150.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: expressing shelter, weight and pilgrimage through massive forms and repeated arches, or separating a medieval reference from Gothic verticality by designing architecture and narrative sculpture together. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Thick masonry, small openings and round arches
- Barrel or groin vaults carried by heavy piers
- Relief filling the semicircular tympanum above a portal
- Figures and animals stretched to fit architectural frames

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Repeat round arches across low stable masses and deform figures to fill portals and capitals
- Type and lettering: Refer to carved capitals and manuscript initials for short inscriptions and headings only
- Material and surface: Use rough-cut stone, dark joints and restricted mural color, leaving the weight and hand-cut marks visible
- Colour: #B79A72 carries the ground, #6F4933 is the colour the style is remembered by, #2D302A holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: trust, calm, luxury

## What goes wrong

Pointed arches, huge windows and skeletal vertical rise move into Gothic. Preserve the round arch, thick wall and low weight.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/romanesque/design.md