To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre. Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and ...

Are people of color actually being cropped out of medieval art? Patton:: I think we may see some cropping in textbooks for the general public or for school kids, where pictures are used to ...

This is inspired by medieval art directly. It’s a concept study for ... the same because you get a different artist who does the images, a different scribe who writes out the text, and so ...

There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly ... imagines people from centuries ago taking delight in some of the illustrations in the same way, like one small depiction of a cat churning ...

In some of these images, it looks like he had male pattern ... depiction of Jesus reflects a broader approach to medieval art: They were less interested in realism or idealized forms than ...

Today, medieval-style warriors and wizards are a staple of popular culture, found everywhere from the Medieval Times “dinner and tournament” chain to “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of ...

what we roughly call the Dark Ages and medieval art. I loved the idea of communicating in pictures — with idiotic jokes often attached. But I wanted people to see these lost images. Over the ...

a broader phenomenon that produced a lot of different medieval images," says Marian Bleeke, a professor of medieval art at the University of Chicago. "The basic idea is the overturning of ...

1560-70). Courtesy of the Getty Museum. As current circumstances draw comparisons to medieval times, the Getty Museum presents “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” an exhibition that pairs ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It's probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might ...

entertaining and at times truly unsettling exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The clergy and royal courts in days of yore used images of griffins, hellmouths, harpies, dragons and sea swine ...

But it is also intended as a warning that these images provide only a distorted ... in the first appearances of Jews in medieval Christian art, in the early 11th century, as deniers of Christ.