Back to Europe. After exploring Indian and Middle Eastern art, where better to land than one of the most influential churches in history. The abbey
Mosque architecture and the most basic Islamic truths reflect each other in tremendously rich ways. Islam has five pillars of faith, and the main one is
I recently said that a lot of things in Islamic thought have deeper meanings than what you see on the surface. If you look
The above photo sure doesn’t look like an ancient Greek temple. Nor does it look like a Romanesque cathedral. Instead of focusing on the simplest
My favorite regional variety of Thai art is from the north. After the Thais threw off the Khmer yoke in the 13th century, a king
The Kingdom of Lan Na emerged when the Thais liberated themselves from the Khmers in the 13th century. Lan Na thrived in northern Thailand, and
Chiang Mai’s Wat Phra Singh has some of the best examples of northern Thai architecture, so it was high on my list of places to
In the last post, we walked towards Angkor Wat’s center and explored some of the carvings on its central section, beginning with the west wall.
Angkor Wat was built in the early twelfth century–exactly when the French pioneered Gothic architecture in the Basilica of St. Denis. Europeans constructed towering naves and choirs