While Basel shines during art week, Zurich offers travellers a year-round creative scene and cultural discoveries.

Great Art Explained began in May 2020 with the simple premise that great art can be explained clearly and concisely in 15 ...

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

That’s not all they found. Highway construction resulted in discoveries from multiple eras of history, including the Roman ...

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

We often perceive the muses of great artists only through the prism of their works. However, artists are peculiar people and ...

The Biennial balances global perspectives with local voices proving the city remains a crossroads where art, history and ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable example of medieval art. The embroidery piece depicts events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and spans nearly 230 feet.

The Walters Art Museum Shines a Light On the Toxic History of Medieval Manuscripts "If Books Could Kill" reveals the deadly history of manuscript production and the impact on bookmakers’—and ...

An exhibition in Oslo considers how artists like Edvard Munch and Käthe Kollwitz embraced the expressive potential of medieval art. Marianne Stokes, Death and the Maiden (1908).

As I argue in my recent book Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice, the medieval city of Venice provides a remarkable historical example for addressing these questions.

During this period, books were for "the medieval 1 per cent", explains Larisa Grollemond, associate curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the Getty Museum.