How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

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

From March 25 to July 20, 2025, the Musée de Cluny in Paris will be hosting "Convoquer les Chimères", an exhibition featuring ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...

Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that has taken the internet by storm.From listicles about "super ugly medieval ...

A rare 1892 art book featuring Byzantine enamels, gifted only to royalty, continues to astonish with its beauty, ...

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 ...

There’s a lot of gold in the National Gallery’s major winter exhibition. Not golden light or painted approximations of its effects, but the actual stuff: hammered gold leaf filling the haloes ...

In his autobiographical account, The Travels of Marco Polo, the famous 13th-century Venetian explorer recorded his visit to Sumatra, Indonesia. "There are wild elephants in the country", he wrote ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...