Note: PJ and I were so excited to see this contribution from Jong-Soung Kimm. we will be visiting the Vall de Boi in Spain this coming October and Sant Climent de Taüll is one of the main reasons. We hope you enjoy this post as much as we did! In Vall de Boí, Comarque of […]
The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir by Carl Siciliano. We were so moved by his testimony that we asked if we could publish this on Via Lucis. In the fall of 2001, I was reeling under the weight of personal and collective catastrophe. For the past seven years I had been the […]
The church of San Pedro de la Nave is located in the town of El Campillo, San Pedro de la Nave-Almendra municipal unit in Zamora province, near the Spanish-Portuguese border and about 150 kilometers southwest of León. The visitors are led to the church through a pathway of a contemporary landscape design from the visitor […]
In light of the disastrous fire at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris this week, it seems that this is good time to reprint Douglas Read’s excellent article on the theories of architectural conservation. Douglas Read is a Scottish architect who specializes in the restoration and conservation of buildings of historical importance, a subject near […]
The church of Santa María del Naranco was originally built as part of a palace complex which King Ramiro I (843-850) of Asturias decreed built on the slope of Mount Naranco, about 3 kilometers north of Oviedo. Today, it is placed in a park setting overlooking the city of Oviedo. The construction of the church […]
It is documented that the Monasterio de San Miguel de Escalada was built by abbot Alfonso and his refugee monks who fled Córdoba on the site of an earlier church dedicated to Archangel Michael, probably a Visigothic structure, in the span of twelve months in 913, the historical moment when the Kingdom of León was […]
Readers of Via Lucis would remember that the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe was featured in an article by Dennis some years ago. Whereas The focus of that blog was on the 11th and 12th century fresco painting on the church nave ceiling, the present article is intended to illustrate the unusual vaulting technique used in […]
PLACE is the bedrock of our existence. It ties together our most cherished memories, defines our experiences, and bookmarks our most important experiences. Place is not always at the forefront of what we do, or the defining totem of memory. But it is there, a vital organ in the body of our existence, and when […]
PJ and I have been shooting Romanesque churches in France for so long and so intensely that we sometimes think we’ve seen them all. Recently our good friend Albert Pinto sent us three photographs of frescoes that have somehow been preserved at the Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Toulongergues in Aveyron, about 20 miles south of Figeac. […]
Nivelles is a municipality in the Belgian province of Waloon Brabant with a population of around 28,000 in 2016. It is said that starting in the 4th millennium B.C., the region had gradually been cultivated as agricultural land by the Danubean settlers. The land was invaded by the Romans in the 1st century, and in […]
