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 ...

The gestures adopted by many of these figures belong to a common visual culture in the art and drama of the medieval church. The iconography, which reflects a Gothic Mannerist style ... English and ...

And did you know that the oldest Polish religious statue is also a figure of the Virgin ... The Madonna on Lions is one of the most interesting late medieval art phenomena from Central Europe. One of ...