“The medieval cathedrals of Europe - there are over a hundred of them - are the greatest accomplishments of humanity in the whole theatre of art. They are total art on the grandest scale, encompassing architecture at its highest pitch, and virtually every kind of artistic activity, from carpentry to painting… An entire lifetime can be profitably spent in visiting cathedrals and in the minute examination of their beauties and treasures.” -Paul Johnson: Art, A New History Johnson also informs us that in some years medieval cathedral-building absorbed as much as ten percent of the entire gross national product of the societies that created them. (Lincoln cathedral, U.K.)

“The medieval cathedrals of Europe - there are over a hundred of them - are the greatest accomplishments of humanity in the whole theatre of art. They are total art on the grandest scale, encompassing architecture at its highest pitch, and virtually every kind of artistic activity, from carpentry to painting… An entire lifetime can be profitably spent in visiting cathedrals and in the minute examination of their beauties and treasures.” -Paul Johnson: Art, A New History

Johnson also informs us that in some years medieval cathedral-building absorbed as much as ten percent of the entire gross national product of the societies that created them.

(Lincoln cathedral, U.K.)