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State Philharmonic Hall, Kaunas (Edmundas Alfonsas Frykas, 1929), neoclassical style building with bright Art Deco architectural elements; Vytautas the Great War Museum and M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum palace, Kaunas (Vladimir Dubenecki, 1936) Vytautas the Great War Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania (Vladimir Dubenecki, 1936)
Since the late 10th century all churches across Europe had been built in a common Romanesque style, with thick walls supported by massive external buttresses and often with barrel vaulted naves. This limited the number of windows, leading to a play of light and shade which builders compensated for by adding internal frescoes in bright colours.
The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age. [4] Written histories of European art often begin with the Aegean ...
The painted crypt of San Isidoro at León, Spain The "Morgan Leaf", detached from the Winchester Bible of 1160–75. Scenes from the life of David.. Romanesque art is the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 12th century, or later depending on region.
Most domestic buildings of the Romanesque period were built of wood, or partly of wood. In Scandinavian countries, buildings were often entirely of wood, while in other parts of Europe, buildings were "half-timbered", constructed with timber frames, the spaces filled with rubble, wattle and daub, or other materials which were then plastered over. [10]
The westwork of Hildesheim Cathedral in 2005. Each leaf of the doors was cast as a single piece. Given the size (left: 472.0 x 125.0 cm, right: 472.0 x 114.5 cm, maximum thickness c. 3.5-4.5 cm) and enormous weight (both c. 1.85 tonnes) of the doors, this is a great achievement for its time.
The court helped introduce Renaissance artistic ideas such as realism and perspective into French art, including stained glass. [23] Another important change to French stained glass took place in the 14th century. This was a change in the narrative style of the window.
Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).