Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 150: Michelangelo
Michelangelo, another multi-talented “Renaissance man” was a world-class sculptor, painter, and architect. He sculpted “David” and the “Pietà,” painted the
Michelangelo, another multi-talented “Renaissance man” was a world-class sculptor, painter, and architect. He sculpted “David” and the “Pietà,” painted the
While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire.
In the 11th and 12th centuries Romanesque churches were filled with beautiful art. And that art served the church. Statues
From the chaos and power vacuum that followed the fall of Rome rose feudalism and Europe’s monastic movement. For
European culture finally kicked into gear in about the year 1000 and mighty Romanesque churches with the finest art of