Vézelay Abbey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Vézelay Abbey - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Vézelay Abbey () is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department of Yonne. It was constructed between 1120 and 1150. The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Saint Mary Magdalene), with its complex program of imagery in sculpted capitals and portals, is one of the great masterpieces of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture. Sacked by the Huguenots in 1569, the building suffered neglect in the 17th and the 18th centuries and some further damage during the period of the French Revolution.Charles Porée, L’abbaye de Vézelay, Paris 1930, pp. 18-19. Read more on Wikipedia
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