In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy . They foster critical ...

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

St. Jakob’s Church contains the one must-see art treasure in Rothenburg: a glorious 500-year-old altarpiece by Tilman ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

The most famous and longstanding of these was the “Old” Medieval bridge, finished in 1209 during the reign of King John. For over 600 years this bridge was the key crossing point of the Thames in ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

Having recently taken New York by storm, this bewitching new exhibition of trecento art arrives in the UK, and is not to be missed ...

Well, what did you expect of medieval representations of the Saviour ... of the Madonna and Child in Pietro Lorenzetti’s Pieve Altarpiece (1320) appear a touch awkward, even amateurish beside ...

CANTON, Ohio – OK, this was a new one on us: There is an Armored MMA league featuring professional medieval combat. And it’s bringing an event to Northeast Ohio on Saturday, June 7.

the second masterpiece by the Medieval master in the Louvre’s collection, is the centerpiece of the exhibition. This particularly large, monumental altarpiece, some 13 feet in height ...