The newest exhibition of Via Lucis photographs is at the Garret Gallery at the Fairfield County District Library. The exhibition opens on Friday, July 19 and is on display through Monday, July 29th. The Main Library is located at 219 North Broad Street in Lancaster. The gallery is on the third floor, accessible by elevator. […]
The town of Quimperlé fooled us completely. We went to the market town about 20 kilometers northwest of Lorient in order to see the Romanesque rotunda church, the Église Sainte-Croix. We immediately headed up the hill to the center of town towards the dominating spire of a church, knowing with certainty that we would find […]
My favorite place in the world is on a small tributary of the river Dordogne near the town of Lacave, about ten miles from the great pilgrimage site of Rocamadour. It is the hotel Le Pont de l’Ouysse, which I have been visiting since 1986. It is my omphalos, the navel of my world, where […]
We have written many times about the devastation experienced by so many churches in this region. Three great convulsions did most of the damage – the Hundred Years War, the Wars of Religion, and the French Revolution. Sometimes it seems miraculous that anything survived, but survive these churches did. The architectural glories of the Charente-Maritime, […]
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 […]
Words can’t do justice to the beauty of the spring countryside in the Auvergne with its fields of yellow dandelions, meadows, volcanic peaks and herds of cattle blending peacefully under a deep blue sky. In the fall, the autumn colors fill the valleys and mountains. This central highlands of France is also home to many […]
June has been a pretty important month for this Via Lucis blog. First off, we have now received over 500,000 visitors in this, our tenth year. Now I know that many blogs and sites get more than that in a day, but there are not talking about medieval art and architecture. When we first started […]
Words can’t do justice to the beauty of the spring countryside in the Auvergne with its fields of yellow dandelions, meadows, volcanic peaks and herds of cattle blending peacefully under a deep blue sky. In the fall, the autumn colors fill the valleys and mountains. This central highlands of France is also home to many […]
Following our post on the newly restored Notre Dame du Port in Clermont-Ferrand, PJ and I decided to feature an unrestored church in Burgundy. The 12th century Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens in Varenne-l’Arconce is quite beautiful but is unfortunately in poor condition and in need of restoration. The name of the church translates to “Saint Peter in […]
There are many examples of the wonderful adornment in Romanesque churches – the sculpture of the capitals, the tympana, the frescoes, and even the painted churches themselves. Particularly in the Cluniac churches, the adornment of churches was so prevalent that Bernard of Clairvaux felt constrained to rail against the practice. In his “Apologia” to William, […]
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