Throughout the Middle Ages, in the Romanesque age, as well as the Gothic age that followed, art inspired, it comforted, and it frightened. Vivid Last Judgment scenes scared people into faithfulness.

So we’ve discovered that people in the Middle Ages understood geography and made some great art. The misconception that Europeans knew very little about the world beyond their own villages can ...

During the medieval millennium, momentous changes took place on every continent: art and culture flourished ... and narrow view of the Middle Ages that a lot of people have,” Grollemond said.

Generally, people tend to imagine the Middle Ages quite inaccurately ... so a unicorn repeatedly popped up in religious medieval art. In the Medieval era, spectators of public executions hunted ...

I think it’s what makes people connect with it—they want ... Her fascination with the art of the Middle Ages was sparked by an art history class she attended while working on her statistician ...

Since I first started writing about art and money almost 11 years ... which proliferated across Europe during the Middle Ages, offered central lessons for people grappling with the ethical ...

A myth persists that during the Middle Ages ... In fact, medieval people set the stage for the Renaissance. They even had three of their own, creating an explosion of art, scientific innovation ...

“Lumen” doesn’t stop at the end of the Middle Ages: It incorporates contemporary art, too, featuring seven artists who, the museum writes in a news release, “engage with ...

(tranquil music) Toward the end of the Middle Ages, a new spirit was blossoming. People were stepping out of medieval darkness, and art was changing with the changing times. Artists now celebrated ...

No orderly era was the Middle Ages. No orderly survey of it does the Boston Museum attempt to give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever ...