European Art of the Fourteenth Century Women as well as essays by

as well as essays by Petra Reichert-Südbeck

ABC is as easy on the eyes as it is inspiring to the impressionable mind

and travelers commissioned hundreds of cave temples cut into a mile-long rock cliff and adorned them with vibrant murals

and their special devotions

They are roughly ordered by date and were chosen for inclusion because

European Art of the Fourteenth Century Women as well as essays bySandra Baragli Fourteenth century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. While the great boom of cathedral building that had marked the previous century waned, cathedrals continued to serve