To today’s audiences, medieval art ... illustrations in the book are otherworldy, Swarthout manages to connect them to the present day, “noting the many parallels between medieval and modern ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social ... making sense of broader Medieval culture through a contemporary lens. What would your name be? Ratbald?

The clergy and royal courts in days of yore used images ... illustration eerily anticipates the ovens at Nazi death camps. That’s up to the viewer to notice. But the illumination clearly shows ...

For her Cyberfolk series, Nedilska conjured fables about modern anxieties ... the surreal quality of medieval art, especially the illustrations in manuscripts. The pictures feel familiar to ...

Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by juxtaposing medieval art with the modern creations ... of Thrones recaps using images of medieval manuscripts ...

Which just goes to show you that contemporary Valentine’s Day card writers really, really need to step up their game if they want to keep up with art history.