The conquest of Mallorca by James I of Aragon in 1229 transformed the island’s political and urban landscape. At the heart of ...

Many of the cathedrals in Britain are orientated east to west. The nave is situated in the west end of the cathedral where ...

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of ...

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls itself “Washington National Cathedral”: a ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

Glide over St. Vitus Cathedral, the crowning jewel of the Prague Castle complex and a masterpiece of Gothic architecture that ...

Telling the story of an unusually thoughtful US president and the political shifts that brought him to power, the Obama ...

When people think of Gothic churches, they often picture European landmarks—cathedrals in Paris, arches in England, and centuries of history across the Atlantic. But the same dramatic architecture can ...