The Gemini Twins, May 22 - June 21

Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon, Burgundy

 

The famous sculpture of Eve by Gislebertus, now in Autun's Rolin Museum

 

Moses and Paul milling away in Vézelay

 

Paradoxplace in France

 

French Pilgrimage Roads

 

French Mermaid - St-Côme-d'Olt

 

Lots more Mermaids

 

English Mermaid - St Laurence, Ludlow

 

Canterbury Cathedral

 

English Cathedral Photo Pages

 

Worcester Cathedral

 

Lincoln Cathedral   2011 photos

 

Paradoxplace in England

 

 

Durham Cathedral + new page

 

 

 

Spain photo and history pages

 

The elegantly simple Romanesque nave of the

Catedral de Santiago de Compostela

 

Camino de Santiago

 

León Cathedral

 

The magnificent facade of Burgos Cathedral

 

 

Lovers in Herefordshire

 

Lovers on the edge of the Auvergne

 

Conques & Ste Foy (Santa Fe)

 

Paradoxplace in Italy

 

Basilica di Santa Croce (Franciscan)

 

Paradoxplace in Florence

 

Abbazia Sant'Antimo

L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (S Tuscany)

 

Siena - medieval mastercity

 

Paradoxplace in Siena

 

The Team Paradox 8 Day Tuscan A Tour Itinerary

 

Urbino - the beginning (or end)

of the Piero della Francesca Trail

 

Tuscan Sunflowers

 

Paradoxplace in Tuscany

 

Tuscan Poppies

 

Santa Prassede, Rome

 

Churches of Rome

 

Paradoxplace in Puglia

 

Trani Cathedral

Trani (Puglia) - Still a Medieval Crusader Port

 

The Normans in S Italy & Sicily

 

Anversa degli Abruzzi

 

US World War II cemetery near Greve-in-Chianti

 

War in Italy  1943 - 1945

The unknown part of WW II

 

 

Welcome to

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30 May is Corpus Domini, honey scented flower tapestries everywhere in Italy

 

 

This infiorata was captured at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari (Lazio) which has a 700 year old Infiorata tradition

 

 

 

The Gemini Twins, now in the Cluny Museum (Paris)

Les Gémeaux - May 22 to June 21

 

More Medieval Zodiacs & Labours of the Months

 

 

 

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The Prophet Jeremiah

Moissac (SW France)

 

Paradoxplace in France

 

The little painted Pilgrims' Church of St-Jacques des Guérets, Loir Valley

 

Cistercian Abbeys of Europe

 

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, Burgundy

 

 

Osteria Corteinfiore, Trani

 

 

Restaurant    Food    Wine   Truffle   Pages

 

Chianti   Siena   Florence   Umbria   Venice   Piemonte   Rome   Puglia

 

Simply the Best Meals

photographic memories of eating simply and well in Italy, Spain and France

 

Team Paradox's Truffle Festival Pages

 

 

 

Donatello's equestrian statue of Venetian Condottiere Erasmo da Narni, called Gattamelata, in Padova

 

Equestrian Statues of the Renaissance

 

 

Insight Pages

 

Renaissance People     Kings and Queens of England

 

Medieval Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago and Rome

 

 

Montecassino WWII in Italy;  Medici Family, Medici Popes & Medici Queens;  40 Cistercian Abbeys;  The Normans in Southern Italy & Sicily Crusades;  Equestrian Statues of the Renaissance;   The 100 Years' War;  Last Supper Paintings in Florence and Venice;   Europe's Leaders 1500 - 1550;   Justinian's Constantinople (527 - 565) Suleiman's Istanbul (1520-1566);   Great Mughal Emperors of India (+The Taj Mahal);   Mongol Emperors;   Travellers, Traders and Explorers 1000 - 1600

 

 

RECENT BOOK ADDITIONS  + BOOKS AND BOOKS AND BOOKS +

 

 

 

Link to a wonderful collection of

Annunciation art

 

 

Art Architecture and History of the Medieval Church + photos of hundreds of medieval cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries and churches

 

England's Medieval Cathedrals     Rome's Churches

Photos and histories of over 40 Cistercian Abbeys

    Cloisters    Rose Windows    Mosaics    Baptismal Fonts    Bronze Doors

    Tympanums, Lintels, Portals and Panels     Capitals & Corbels

Roof Bosses     Misericords    Croziers    Mermaids     Dragons

Adam 'n Eves   Annunciations   The Nativity   The Magi

Medieval Popes    Popes of the Renaissance

 

Links to Paradoxplace pages about medieval illustrations of Labours of the Month, Zodiac Signs, Cardinal Virtues and Sins in Western European churches.

 

 

 

Domenico Ghirlandaio frescos a young  Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512 (58)), in the Florence church of Ognissanti.  The Vespucci family were Ognissanti parishioners, and the two continents of the Americas were later named after their explorer son Amerigo.   The refectory of Ognissanti also has one of the best surviving Renaissance "Last Suppers".

 

 

Portraits from the Middle Ages

 

An Emperor, two Kings, a Banker, a Priest, a Pope and a Sultan launch the age of European Nation States

 

Movers and Shakers of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

 

Chatty chronologies of interesting events, people, ideas, books, art and architecture from the end of the Western Roman Empire (500) to the emergence of the Nation States of Europe (1600).

 

The 100 Most Popular Pages in Paradoxplace (March 2010)

 

Paradoxplace has nearly 1,000 pages of photos, stories, books, food and restaurants, which attract tens of thousands of new visitors each month.  These were the 100 most visited pages in March 2010.

 

 

4th Crusade

 

The Crusades

 

 

 

Seafood Pie at Rick Stein's, Padstow

 

 

September - October 2012 ..... Team Paradox back travelling England, unearthing more ancestors from the 1700s and 1800s and parish churches from much earlier.

 

Follow the fun in Bellatrovata

 

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