The film discusses the art of the Middle Ages, emphasizing its role in expressing ... which reflects the deep religious beliefs and cultural values of the period, despite the challenges of ...

Due to history's patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages ... as the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (her Dec. 10 workshop ...

That story, its turmoil and triumphs, is reflected in the awe-inspiring art of the age. The last half of the Middle Ages left us plenty to both see and celebrate. With the Gothic Age, radiant ...

So throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, artists have had plenty of strange and creepy stories to inform their werewolf illustrations. A priest administering last rites to the dying wife ...

“If you think about the imagination of heaven and hell in movies and popular culture ... to the Middle Ages,” Schwarz said by phone from Chicago, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in art history ...

pop culture is saturated with medieval imagery. Now, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by juxtaposing medieval art with ...

The Renaissance, spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, marked a pivotal "rebirth" in Europe, transitioning from the Middle Ages to modernity. This period witnessed a resurgence of classical learning, ...

The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the unholy courts of the Renaissance, then returned to the page as Hamlet’s Yorick. Later, in the age of reason and ...

Her fascination with the art of the Middle Ages was sparked by an art history class she attended while working on her statistician’s degree. Her decision to create a platform for the oddities ...

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to Monty Python, Disney castles to Medieval Times dinner theater, we dreamt of the ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their monasteries—when people generally, other than perhaps the well-to-do ...

The High Middle Ages brought majestic castles ... stand as proud testaments to the Norse culture and its art. Carvings evoke the pagan roots of these early Norwegian Christians.