The Medieval Catholic cathedrals, seats of the authorities of God, government, Popes, nobility, and learning, are consummate examples of spaces that brilliantly utilized all of the arts to create an inspirational feeling of awe.* Unique in grand architecture, aesthetic ornamentation, representational paintings, mosaics, frescoes, and sculpture, plus music presentations and sermons, these exquisite structures succeeded in instructing an illiterate populace of their communal and moral duties.

They also provided overwhelming beauty and detailed narratives of metaphorical allusions to Biblical stories and philosophical wisdom. All over Europe one can discover and understand what individuals high and low from the 12^th to the 16^th century experienced in these great sanctuaries of ideas communicated via art.