Architecture - France - line art Detail Gothic Sainte Chapelle De Paris

Artifacts - Metal - France Romanesque Altar-Candlestick c. 1150

Artifacts - Wood/Metal - France Ambo (a stand from which the Gospel is read during the service) in the Minster at Aix-la-Chapelle. Wood covered with sheet-copper. 11th century.

Cloitre St. Trophisme, Arles, France

Artifacts - Wood/Gold - France Early Romanesque Reliquary. Wood Covered with Sheet-Gold c. 1000 A reliquary was used to store blessed relics - pieces of a deceased holy person`s body or belongings - for purposes of reverence.

Paintings & Engravings - (Color) - France "The Blessed Bread" by Pascal Adolphie Jean Dagnan-Bouveret The painter exhibited in the Salon of 1879 with "A Wedding at the Photographer`s". In 1886, in the same exhibition, he was represented by this pict

Architecture - France - line art Elevation Romanesque Elevation showing the choir of Notre Dame du Port at Clermont c. 1150 Romanesque - a style of architecture prevalent in Europe from the 10th to early 13th century characterized by massive vaulting and

Artifacts - Relief - Italy St. Matthew. From Lorenzo Ghiberti`s (1378-1455) first bronze Baptistery Gate at Florence. The artist was born in the year of the Great Schism that saw two Popes (one in Rome, the other in Avignon France) contest the rule of t

Artifacts - Relief - Italy The Creation of Eve. From Lorenzo Ghiberti`s (1378-1455) second, bronze Baptistery Gate at Florence. The artist was born in the year of the Great Schism that saw two Popes (one in Rome, the other in Avignon France) contest the

France, Normandy, church in mist