In 1999 was unearthed, near the city of Taiyuan in the Shanxi province of China, a marble sarcophagus of one Yu Hong, who died and was buried there with his wife in AD 592, during the Sui dynasty. Since then, it has been determined that this man was of Central Asian stock. Moreover, he was during ... More
Romanes.com is a wonderful site devoted to Romanesque art (mostly in France). It features an extensive database of pictures from famous and less famous, but equally beautiful, churches dating to this era, in all the manifestations of this style. The Romanesque style developped across France and ... More
Orient-Occident proposes to trace the history of Western art (and of neighboring cultures historically tied to it) in relation to its philosophical/ theological background, beginning with the Egyptian Book of the Dead through Platonism, Christianity, to Islam and the Renaissance. Of particular ... More
Byzantine influence upon the Western world was most marked in Italy–not surpisingly, since the Italian peninsula was the wealthiest part of Western Europe, and was always close enough to the Byzantine Empire to feel its influence. Italian religious art was, until the early 14th century, ... More
