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 ...

Earle drew heavily from medieval influences for the backgrounds, many of which have been lauded by modern animators and art critics but were bemoaned as “too busy” by some of Earle’s colleagues.

Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X ...

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 ...

“The overall feel was to be ‘medieval,’” Harris told Artnet News ... the artist looked to ancient Greek and Roman artifacts, especially the art unearthed from Pompeii, which included ...

Studies in Iconography (ISSN 0148-1029, e-ISSN 2693-8456) is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents ...

and permeated European art right up to the Renaissance, as anyone who has spent time in the National’s medieval galleries will be well aware. By and large, images of saints on gold backgrounds ...

A joint program co-curated by Case Western Reserve University distinguished professor of humanities and medieval art history Elina Gertsman and CMA’s curator of medieval art Gerhard Lutz, ...

But just because the felines were depicted frequently in medieval art and design doesn’t mean they were depicted well. Why were these lions so strange? One of the reasons is that many medieval ...

Within western medieval art, nudity still played a role, albeit to a lesser extent than it had in antiquity. Certain biblical scenes such as the crucifixion had nudity and numerous manuscripts ...