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Gam made possible by the Financial Support of. And the following individuals and foundations. Corporate funding for art of the western world is by movado, makers of the Movado Museum watch, the watch dial design in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world. Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project for the First Time Since classical antiquity, a western artist asserts his own vision and western art finds its own distinctive style romanesque. Although the roman empire was conquered by the barbarians and the lands of western europe were overrun by pagan tribes in the dark ages, roman civilization, and above all roman christianity, triumpd in the long run. Converted to the new faith, the former barbarians became the heirs of rome and the founders of modern europe. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the period we call romanesque, there was a remarkable revival of art and especially architecture. In the words of a contemporary, it was as if the whole earth had cast
For the First Time Since classical antiquity, a western artist aerts his own vision and western art finds its own distinctive style romanesque. Although the roman empire was conquered by the barbarians and the lands of western europe were overrun by pagan tribes in the dark ages, roman civilization, and above all roman christianity, triumpd in the long run. Converted to the new faith, the former barbarians became the heirs of rome and the founders of modern europe. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the period we call romanesque, there was a remarkable revival of art and especially architecture. In the words of a contemporary, it was as if the whole earth had cast off her old age and was clothing herself everywhere in a white garment of churches. Two of the most powerful forces molding the development of romanesque art and architecture were pilgrimage and the monastic movement. The Romanesque Church here at vezelay in france embodies both Benedictine Monastery and starting point on the pi
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