Call it art history meets HBO ... you get a different artist who does the images, a different scribe who writes out the text, and so each surviving medieval manuscript is a unique exemplar.

Paul Getty Museum of Art ... share images that have never been shared, and entice people to look for the first time.” Recaps have featured pages from illuminated manuscripts, medieval Christian ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys ... “A lot of images like that are a fun way to connect with people who lived ...

1560-70). Courtesy of the Getty Museum. As current circumstances draw comparisons to medieval times, the Getty Museum presents “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” an exhibition that pairs ...

To today’s audiences, medieval ... images. Instead, she aims to provide new insights into everyday life during this period of history—which requires looking beyond criticisms of the art ...

Memento mori, artistic reminders that we all must die, had been around since Roman times, but in the aftermath of so many tragedies it became increasingly popular in medieval art. The creepiest ...

entertaining and at times truly unsettling exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The clergy and royal courts in days of yore used images of griffins, hellmouths, harpies, dragons and sea swine ...

Are people of color actually being cropped out of medieval art? Patton:: I think we may see some cropping in textbooks for the general public or for school kids, where pictures are used to ...

what we roughly call the Dark Ages and medieval art. I loved the idea of communicating in pictures — with idiotic jokes often attached. But I wanted people to see these lost images. Over the ...

From listicles about "super ugly medieval dogs" to Instagram accounts devoted to "weird medieval guys", it seems people can't get enough of these pictures — the stranger, the better. That's ...

I have chosen this title, overworked metaphor and all, in part because it acknowledges that Christian images of Jews ... appearances of Jews in medieval Christian art, in the early 11th century ...