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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The chrismon, the symbol based on the early Christian chi-rho monogram of Christ, is among the most intriguing yet poorly understood and ...

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 ...

Artist Jim Craft explains his work to a group of schoolchildren in Greenville, S.C. (Photo courtesy of Father Dwight Longenecker.) Listen Two years ago, my sister and her art professor husband Jim ...

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 ...

AFTER the Moslem surge exploded out of Arabia in the 7th century and swept westward until it had engulfed Spain, one of the first areas to be liberated (by Charlemagne in 788) was Catalonia. There, in ...