Castello di Amorosa stands proudly on a Calistoga hillside, a 13th-century Tuscan castle that seems to have been plucked from ...

Old-world charm and modern culture collide in this European city full of art, history, street murals, and digital museums you ...

WATCH: Tech-savvy art historian Andrew Tallon uses lasers to unlock the builders' secrets behind the construction of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Toussaint Santicola Jones "thinks big and his music has big gestures, vivid characters and strong contrasts,” said his thesis ...

Pyrénées region in the south of France, between Toulouse and Carcassonne, lies a proud custodian of ancestral know-how and heritage. The community of Revel was conceived as a bastide, a denomination ...

An example grows in the tower's garden for visitors to test. "Hygiene in the Middle Ages" has plenty of other interesting information about how our ancestors kept themselves clean. Soap came in two ...

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. It is believed to have been ...

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 ...

University of Minnesota students can learn about “transgender saints” in a class on “intersectional medieval art.” The class is “grounded in critical race theory, intersectionality, 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).

Many of the dragons we find in pop culture — in the popular television series Game of Thrones, for example — are based on medieval interpretations. What about those human-looking eyes? That ...

As evidence of the evolution of Buddhist art in the northwest region of China, the Mogao Caves are of unmatched historical value. These works provide an abundance of vivid materials depicting various ...