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 ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

Studies in Iconography (ISSN 0148-1029, e-ISSN 2693-8456) is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents ...

By making some of the matter of historical generalization available to students, the series enlivens efforts to understand what medieval people thought and felt as they moved through the major ...

It was used to describe medieval culture, particularly art and architecture. People in the Middle Ages had not called their own culture Gothic - the term was applied retrospectively as an insult.