Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing ... of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

Art is a living testament to humanity’s creativity and resilience. From ancient cave paintings to digital masterpieces, it ...

In Poland the miraculous birth of the Saviour has been widely represented through a range of works inspired by Matthew and Luke's literary depictions in evangelical texts, from Romanesque Art through ...

Enluminures, as part of New York Jewelry Week. Les Enluminures sets out to provide a fresh reading of the art of the Middle Ages, through intricately embellished manuscripts, finely worked ...

the skull could also be a reference to the “dance of death,” the idea of death’s inevitability that was a frequent subject of European art during the late Middle Ages. “Because it has a ...