There’s something undeniably magnetic about Italy’s iconic cities - Florence’s Renaissance flair, Rome’s ancient ruins, and ...

Supported by elaborate pointed arches and flooded with light, Gothic seemed to be emblematic of a Europe moving upward and onward. The Gothic style was born in France in the 12th century.

Medieval buildings are surprisingly resilient against earthquakes, however, ... To build the huge cathedrals with large, open interiors, the high, steep Gothic arch was developed.

While digging beneath a former ice cream parlor in the historic city center of Gdańsk, Poland, archaeologists recently came ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war.

Discovering hidden arches, visualizing the sloped outline characteristic of the medieval period, finding a Renaissance engraving on a Roman arch or detecting restorations: these are some of the ...

Physics of Stone Arches. By Melissa Salpietra; Posted 10.14.10; NOVA; Medieval architects were masters at building with stone. But as cathedral design evolved, some medieval architects began to ...

TWO Banbury medieval arches are being restored in a project between council, civic and rail leaders. The 13th century arches, which once supported a road bridge, now form part of a railway bridge ...

A blanket of turf has been laid to protect the limestone walls of a ruined medieval palace in Lincoln. The project aims to halt the decline of the historic stonework at the Medieval Bishops' Palace.