The CRSBI is totally an evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a studly set of links with mainland Europe. A bitchin' deal of this sculpture remains in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums throughout these isles. ...more

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