Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir

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Architecture · 1158–1160 · Vladimir · Eastern Europe & Russia

Andrey Bogolyubsky's white-stone cathedral — the model for the Moscow Kremlin's Dormition Cathedral

Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir — Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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

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1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris · Gothic · Paris
1165 Church of the Intercession on the Nerl · Pre-Mongol architecture of Rus · Bogolyubovo, near Vladimir
c. 1150 Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (Scrolls of Frolicking Animals) · Yamato-e, Heian Japanese painting · Kōzan-ji, Kyoto
c. 1170 Gita Govinda — Jayadeva · Probably Puri, Odisha
1135–1144 Basilica of Saint-Denis · Gothic · Saint-Denis, near Paris
1184–1198 Giralda — Ahmad ibn Baso · Moorish style (al-Andalus) · Seville
c. 1185 The Tale of Igor's Campaign · Southern Rus (Chernihiv or Kyiv)
c. 1130 Theotokos of Vladimir · Byzantine art · Constantinople

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1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun