Focus on this artwork and discuss the History.
The Old Church Tower is the final remains of a 12th-century Romanesque church built during Christianity's spread across the countryside.  It is surrounded by an old burial ground whose graves were marked with simple wooden crosses.  The spire was demolished before Van Gogh's early watercolors of the tower could be developed into oil paintings. At the time, the building itself was crumbling. The final version of the oil paintings were finished just before the building was demolished and the remains sold for scrap.
Romanesque