Last month, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the return of one of Spain’s great medieval treasures, the Sijena Murals, to their original monastery after nearly a century at the National Art Museum of ...

PARIS — Coming upon a remote Romanesque church from almost 1,000 years ago is one of the pleasures of traveling through the countryside of Europe. But these structures, put up when the tribes that had ...

Of the hundreds of thousands of worshipers and sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered ...

Twelfth-century pilgrimage art in Bethlehem and Jerusalem : points of contact between Europe and the crusader kingdom / Jaroslav Folda -- The oliphant : a call for a shift of perspective / Mariam ...

The term Romanesque lacks neatness and precision: it has been applied to almost everything that happened in art between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Gothic cathedral. Scholars ...

The remains of an architecturally rare church that have lain unknown beneath the earth for a millennium have come to light in Germany. They are the foundations of a Romanesque church that may be ...

This magnificent 12th century cloister has been hidden from the public for more than half a century. Incredibly, it was bought for the equivalent of just 6,000 euros in Madrid in 1958 and the grand ...

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