LINKTV Deutsche Welle Journal September 25, 2013
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, triumphed 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...