Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

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 ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

with hand-drawn figures and beautiful calligraphy it is a medieval work of art in its own right. “However, where it differs ...

The exceptionality of the discovery returns to the public domain the remains of a rare example of 11th century medieval art.