“They’re still superhuman in scale.” In the mid-13th century, the focus of Gothic architecture shifted away from height and towards decoration. The Rayonnant Gothic style, which was defined ...

Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, located in the Centre-Val-de-Loire region, is one of the most authentic and complete works of religious architecture of the early 13th century. It was the destination ...

Archaeologists working on the renovation of the Dutch parliamentary complex in The Hague have found evidence that it was the site of an extensive medieval ruler’s palace 30 years earlier than ...