When he first saw "The Last Supper and the Agony in the Garden" at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Jeffrey Forgeng was puzzled by the choreography of the circa-1300, Central Italian fresco, ...

(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...

"Flowers of the Sky" is a stunning collection of celestial art throughout the ages from the Public Domain Review. The artwork in this collection covers nearly a millennium of illustrations ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

Derick Baegert, ‘Crucifixion,’ Dortmund, ca. 1475. Propsteikirche, Dortmund. “Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography,” by Sara Lipton, Metropolitan Books, 416 pages, $37 Those ...

The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art. The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at ...

Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons fill the Getty Center’s galleries this summer. A new exhibition plumbs ...

The modern medieval castle in Bryn Athyn has closed for renovations until 2023. So it sent its prized 12th-century stained glass to the Philly Art Museum. The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn ...

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