1000–1400 CE
Art made worldwide between 1000 and 1400, from Romanesque and Gothic Europe to Song China, Angkor, Ife and Cahokia.
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These four centuries saw building and image-making flourish across the world. In Europe, Romanesque churches such as Modena Cathedral, where Wiligelmo carved Genesis reliefs around 1100, gave way after the 1140s to Gothic cathedrals of pointed arches and walls of stained glass. Italian painters then reached for weight and feeling: Duccio's Maestà (1308–11) for Siena and Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua (about 1305) prepared the ground for the Renaissance.
Elsewhere the same period produced Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Chola bronzes of south India and the rock-cut churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia. Song painters in China perfected monumental landscape, and under Mongol rule Zhao Mengfu revived older styles; Korean potters made jade-green Goryeo celadons; and Kamakura sculptors in Japan carved wooden figures with crystal eyes. Mamluk and Ilkhanid courts commissioned enamelled glass and illustrated books, casters at Ife made naturalistic heads, and Cahokia grew into the largest town north of Mexico.
