Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create ... including At least one course in history At least one course in art or music Students are encouraged to ...

The best glass manufacturers and exporters of this time were the Phoenicians who had a great supply of silica rich sands. Glass blowing developed around 1st century BCE in Palestine. Although the art ...

1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art ... medieval and early modern periods. Beginning in 2018, all books listed in RMEMC are also part of SMEMC.

When looking at medieval art, it is important to recognize that the objects in a modern exhibition are taken out of their original context. Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries ...

Best of all was the chance to visit the Book ... These illuminated manuscripts are one of the wonders of medieval Europe. Imagine the monks in their stone huts, battered by sea winds, bent over ...

Elina Gertsman calls the exhibit “small, but mighty.” Some items are so intricate and ornate they require viewing through a magnifying glass to capture detail. But make no mistake, the impact of ...

The course examines the power, splendour and art of European courts in the Northern Renaissance, focusing on the most splendid of them all: the court of the dukes of Burgundy and its urban context.