Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back to the ancient Roman way of ...

Up on the cliffs overlooking the Ionian Sea, the city Taormina has been charming travellers throughout history. This medieval ...

Paris is famous for its gorgeous historic streets, Gothic cathedral and, of course, the hordes of tourist s who flock there ...

Gothic architecture first emerged in the 12th century and was most closely related with church architecture, though other uses did exist. In religious settings, it was meant to suggest the superhuman.

The book cover send-up of Grant Wood’s 1930 painting “American Gothic” portends an on-campus dose of the surreal, as viewed through the foibles of small-town Ohio academia. The writer ...