The Book: Covering fifty-five cloisters in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and England, the photographs in this marvelous book celebrate six hundred years of art and architecture between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, from the stark pre-Romanesque period to the flamboyant late Gothic. In addition, the text provides an expert intorduction to the history of medieval religious orders and a wonderful insight into the spiritual life of the monasteries.
hardcover - 9.5" x 11.25" - 192 pages
The Author: Véronique Rouchon Mouilleron studied at the École Normale Supérieure and has a Ph.D. in the History of Medieval Art. She now teaches in the the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne).
