From roughly 1000 to 1200 CE, Romanesque was the architectural style most closely associated with church building throughout Western Europe. Drawing …
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Medieval Architecture: Gothic, Romanesque, and Islamic
From the late Roman period across Carolingian architecture to the international styles of Romanesque and Gothic, medieval architecture shows a great variety that is rarely recognized.
After the Fall of Rome in 476, the grip of Roman culture on Western Europe diminished. Non-Roman states were formed and developed distinct …
Popular culture perceives and values the Middle Ages only in extremes, either as the idealized Golden Age or the miserable Dark Ages. However, …
Sicily is a triangle-shaped island in the Mediterranean, just off the southeastern tip of Italy. It had an ever-changing leadership during the Middle …
By the early 12th century, France’s most significant royal abbey, Saint-Denis, was in disrepair. As a major stop on pilgrimage routes and the burial …
The earliest examples of Gothic architecture date back to the second half of the 12th century. The worksites of cathedrals involved architects, …
Moorish art is a term used to explain the artistic production of Medieval Spain under the rule of the surviving remnants of the Umayyad Caliphate …
From mounting a revolution and slaughtering the previous dynasty to the Golden age of Islam and Islamic art, the Abbasid Caliphate was the last …
