Via Lucis Photography is about the art and architecture of Romanesque and Gothic churches in Europe. This blog highlights those photographs but also features the written word to characterize and give context to the images. Photographers Dennis Aubrey and PJ McKey have photographed approximately 900 of these churches and captured over 125,000 images. We have […]
The waters speak of love, and the breeze, the oars, the little birds, the fish, the flowers, and the grass all together beg me to love forever. Francesco Petrarca PJ and I knew very little about Fontaine-de-Vaucluse when we arrived to photograph the 11th century Romanesque church. We entered the small town and were surprised […]
The Pyrénéen town of Prades is our headquarters when we visit this part of French Catalonia. It is surrounded by some of the most pure and beautiful examples of Romanesque architecture and sits in the shadow of the great Mont Canigou, the mystic mountain that dominates the landscape. We make our home at the Castel […]
The abbey church Notre Dame de Bernay is one of the earliest examples of Norman Romanesque architecture that remains to us. It is no longer a consecrated church and currently serves as a community exhibition hall and tourist attraction in the center of the town of Bernay. It was empty when we shot there in […]
The cathedral of Saint Caprais in Agen is an interesting blend of Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The church that we see today was built originally as a collégiale replacing a seventh century basilica that had been sacked by Normans in 853. Not a trace of that earlier church remains. It is important to note that […]
Poitiers has been one of my favorite towns in France since I lived there in the early 1960’s. While the town and its suburbs are fairly large, the city center has changed little in centuries. Rising above the rivers Clain and Boivre, Poitiers is built on a series of hills which rise forty meters above […]
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are […]
Our original post on the famous Abbeye Saint Michel de Cuxa in the Pyrénées-Orientales gives much of the history and description of the church. I won’t repeat those contributions in this post, but will merely show the photographs that were taken to supplement those taken earlier. This time we arrived in the early afternoon at […]
