When you consider abstract art, your mind likely conjures images of works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Piet Mondrian: bold shapes, swaths of vibrant colors and innovative techniques. However, ...
Art of Europe’s “Age of Faith”: Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, Moorish, and even Viking. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization ...
Last month, my wife Mary and I walked through the chapter house of the 12th-century Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut monastery. From there we made our way to the Saint-Guilhem Cloister arcade, which also dates ...
Last week, an early medieval burial site—since characterized as one of the most significant ever excavated in the UK—was discovered. Buried alongside its inhabitant from the Middle Ages was an ...
Anyone who has peered over the soft vellum pages of an illuminated manuscript will have marveled over its intricate and colorful designs, which range from stylized floral borders to decorated initials ...
The idea of tourism is a relatively new one. In the medieval period, no one traveled for fun. In fact, most people never ventured further than twenty miles from their hometown. If they did, it was ...
Soaring Gothic cathedrals of radiant stained glass, plus art celebrating worldly pleasure. As Europe passed A.D. 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with ...
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