'The Annunciation and Visitation' is a stunning Gothic-style stained glass window created by the master glass painter Bertin Duval in 1531. It is located in the Notre-Dame Basilica (Basilique Notre-Dame) in Alençon, Normandy, France
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These 2nd and 3rd century Roman sarcophagi in the Camposanto, Pisa, were the inspiration for the beginning of the Italian Renaissance sculpture of the 13th century. In particular the Phaedra Sarcophagus, pictured above, was the model for Nicola Pisano's Madonna, and animal scenes on the pulpit in the cathedral.
Located in the Museu Frederic Marès this 4th century Roman Sarcophagus features Christian themes.
Ango Saxon sculpture is divided into two main periods, that before the 9th century Danish invasion and that after King Alfred (871-899). The period covers a period from the earliest Christian crosses, and includes stone decorative elements in churches depicting grotesque animals and fiugures intertwined with vine tendrils.
Examples of the friezes and fragments of stone carvings from the 8th century Anglo Saxon monastery at Breedon-on-the-Hill.
Anglo Saxon animal carvings at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire.
The Hedda stone, in Peterborough Cathedral, dated to about 870AD. It contains the carved figures of twelve monks, and is thought to represent those killed in Danish raids.
This tomb of William I Duke of Normandy (d942) in Rouen Cathedral dates from the 14th century. The earlier burial had been in the ancient sanctuary near the end of what is now the nave.
Romanesque is a term given to architecture and art from 1000 AD until about 1150 AD when it was succeeded by the Gothic. The term Romanesque was first used by the French antiquarian Charles-Alexis-Adrien de Gerville in a letter to Auguste Le Prévost (1818).
Fragment of saint giving a blessing.