Church of the Intercession on the Nerl

Architecture · 1165 · Bogolyubovo, near Vladimir · Eastern Europe & Russia

A single-domed white-stone church on a floodplain — the ideal of Rus architectural proportion

Style: Pre-Mongol architecture of Rus — Cross-in-square churches of thin brick or white stone: Byzantine plan, Rus silhouette
Century: 12th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris · Gothic · Paris
c. 1170 Gita Govinda — Jayadeva · Probably Puri, Odisha
1158–1160 Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir · Pre-Mongol architecture of Rus · Vladimir
c. 1150 Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (Scrolls of Frolicking Animals) · Yamato-e, Heian Japanese painting · Kōzan-ji, Kyoto
1184–1198 Giralda — Ahmad ibn Baso · Moorish style (al-Andalus) · Seville
c. 1185 The Tale of Igor's Campaign · Southern Rus (Chernihiv or Kyiv)
1186 Ta Prohm · Khmer art of Angkor · Angkor, Cambodia
c. 1190 Bayon · Khmer art of Angkor · Angkor Thom, Cambodia