Baroque (pronounced /bəˈroʊk/, bə-rohk) is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. [1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is ...
Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the ...
The Basilica of Saint Lawrence (Italian: Chiesa di San Lorenzo Maggiore) is a church in Milan, northern Italy, dedicated to the Christian martyr St. Lawrence. Various suggestions of its origin ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) ...
The term stained glass can refer to the material of coloured glass or the craft of working with it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term "stained glass" has been applied ...
Date of Inscription: 1988Criteria: (i)(ii)(vi)Property : 18.1700 haCounty of Kent, EnglandN51 16 48 E1 4 60Ref: 496 Brief Description Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head ...
Russian Federation Date of Inscription: 1994 Criteria: (ii) Moscow, the South District N55 39 20 E37 40 26 Ref: 634rev Brief Description The Church of the Ascension was built in ...
Russian Federation Date of Inscription: 1994 Criteria: (ii) Moscow, the South District N55 39 20 E37 40 26 Ref: 634rev Brief Description The Church of the Ascension was built in ...
Brief Description The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an ...
Italy Date of Inscription: 1980 Criteria: (i)(ii) Property : 1.5000 ha Province of Milano, Lombardy N45 27 57.2 E9 10 13.8 Ref: 93 Brief Description The refectory of the Convent ...
Fauresmith is a small lucerne and potato farming town near the Jagersfontein Diamon mine in the Free State province of South Africa. The town began as a church settlement on ...
Giugliano in Campania (better known simply as Giugliano) is a city and comune in the province of Napoli, Campania, Italy. As of 2008, it had some 113,000 inhabitants and it ...
Cholet (probably from Latin cauletum, "cabbage") is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. It was the capital of military Vendée.
