As a result, animals turned up "in any possible context where art would be made", from wall paintings and carved doorways to ...

“Gothic was an innovative, progressive architecture,” says Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University ... “It refers to Germanic barbarians, the Goths, who sacked Rome seven ...

Medieval Papacy: The church as a kingdom With ... Renaissance and Reformation Papacy: Art and corruption The Renaissance Popes, including Pope Julius II (1503–1513) and Pope Leo X (1513 ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that Christianity had added little or nothing of value to Western culture. Auster ...

First released in 1995, designed by beloved German designer, the late Klaus Teuber, this medieval-themed game about settling ... Carthage, Greece, and the Barbarian Tribes each playable, boasting ...

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

March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

Bianca Frölich, an art and antiques specialist at Frölich Kunst & Antiek, says little survives from the period the ring was created in the Low Countries. “Where the economic wind is blowing is ...