Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ...

Unicorns have been both revered and attacked in art over centuries. And one depiction in particular has an unusual connection ...

The content discusses the Gothic art movement from 1140 to 1500 AD in Europe, emphasizing its philosophical underpinnings that combined faith and reason. Gothic architecture, exemplified by cathedrals ...

Bollywood films do not just stop at casting the Muslim man as the antagonist—a studied investment within films such as ...

I am a loyal Smith alumna. The friendships I made with my professors were the most enlightening, cherished, and enduring ...

A range of paintings, textiles, wood and stone sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and other objects of worship serves as a basic primer on European medieval art. Nothing on view greedily demands ...

Southeast London's Eltham Palace is an unusual marriage of medieval and Tudor architecture and the opulent interior-design ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

More than 150 colorful paintings -- created by middle school students and featuring letters of the alphabet in a style to ...

The ring, which dates from the ninth or tenth century, has been unofficially likened to J.R.R. Tolkein's “one ring to rule ...