European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

The 18th century examples were often domestic, with highly decorative interiors, seen at Strawberry Hill, making the style fashionable. By the early 1800s though, scholarship on medieval Gothic was ...

The Seville cathedral is the largest Gothic church in ... the Romanesque interior retains a sense of ancient reverence. The Portico of Glory is a stunning example of medieval sculpture.

The most striking of Kutná Hora is the church of Saint Barbara, the Gothic jewel whose interior is ... secular life of the medieval mining town of Kutná Hora. This piece of art had a major influence ...