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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

A rabbit stands up on its hind legs and decapitates a man, a knight is defeated by a gigantic snail, a nun plucks penises from a tree. These are just some of the strange images, along with various ...

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

At the National Museum of Denmark stands this impeccably detailed 14th-century vessel, embodying the place of fine art and craftsmanship at medieval Europe’s dining table.

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 ...