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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?
Other artwork in Poncher’s book further pointed her to the path expected of a medieval woman, including childbearing through images ... on everything from art history to contemporary art.
Blood: Medieval/Modern is the first exhibition to combine Medieval manuscripts with contemporary art in the Getty ... works like a striking 1480-90 illustration of the side wound of Christ ...
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 ...
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 ...
These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that has taken ... guys", it seems people can't get enough of these pictures — the stranger, the better.
But it is also intended as a warning that these images ... relationship of art to life, to the reinforcement of many prevailing modern stereotypes of anti-Jewish attitudes in medieval Christian ...
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.