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Romanesque Sculpture

Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France

Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France

The tympanum of Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, completed in the 1130s, has a great deal of decorative spiral detail in the draperies.

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