After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. – Harry Seidler
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. – William Makepeace Thackeray
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming. – Howard Carter
