Art of the High Middle Ages

Rick Steves’ Europe Season 12 showcases Europe’s great art and architecture. © 2024 | As Europe passed AD 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with colorful altarpieces, lacy stonework, and radiant stained glass. We visit luxurious castles to see exquisite tapestries showing a new secular love of worldly pleasures and, end in Italy, where pioneering artists like Giotto were mastering realism and pointing the way to the future of art. #ricksteveseurope #artofeurope #arthistory

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[ReubenClough]

Rick Steves isn’t just a national treasure, he is a WORLD treasure.

[MichelleSanders-xe]

Anyone else ever dream of traveling to see things like this as a child all thanks to guys like Rick? That smile and positivity while story telling is infectious and makes me still want to see the world today.

[vicmatic]

Magnificent. Even in high areas that are not visible, they create very detailed carvings and paintings.

[dschmid]

This video (and the early middle ages) is one of the best series I’ve seen in many years. Well done! An excellent introduction and summary on the high middle ages that’s easily understandable, covering art and architecture, religious and secular, with excellent location footage. Even the choice of music was appropriate and and drew us into the age. My mother and I just watched this video this afternoon and we enjoyed it. Thank you Rick.

[amarojas]

Ì love love love the Sainte Chapelle, with the especial wonderful blue color of the vitraux. I always visited it when I go to Paris❤❤❤

[pavelow]

Good 2-part series on Middle Age Art. Thanks for posting !

[suvichaiful]

Thanks a lot, Rick. I absolutely love this VDO.

[devjanichakraborty]

It's a very nice view of the magnificent cathedral !
Sir, i feel, whether it is the gospels of Christanity or the tales of Hindu mythology all gives us an idea of the time and people of a certain era when we were not born on this earth.Therefore it teaches us many good and bad things which might have happened in the past.Thus, we learn from our past, experience the present and look forward to the future which is again a product of our present circumstances.The main aim of our life is to live with proper dignity, love and respect for the mankind and have empathy for all the living creatures and have complete faith and devotion in One Supreme Energy that governs this universe !😊

[ziggy]

Here 8:11, Rick Steves was like, “I didn’t know that I was actually going to hear a full mass.” 😂

[timberrr]

In San Francisco, the Grace Church gothic has an altar that faces West.

[muhammedshamnajm]

In kerala and mysore in india some gothic church is thiet

[ichaaulia]

Terbuat dari bahan apa sajakah rumah /istana, tempat peribadatan dan aula di benua eropa sehingga bertahan lama.??

[lavluvlov]

Do you have a problem with the cathedral of Cologne ?

[ziggy]

If Rick Steves loves Gothic art, then he should make trip to Gotham City.

[cynthiastinson]

Love the people as a cathedral. But if you think about it, isn’t that what the church really is?

[karupe]

Isnt gothic low middle ages instea of high? 🫣

[ShandiniWickramathilake]

I felt that most of the Gothic creations🐦were biger than those of earlier I do agree these are charming and truely

[fdgfhgfhjfghlkfghkl]

European middle age art is not complete with the Byzantine art which it was not shown in this video