Medieval Europeans engaging in falconry on horseback Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Fifteenth-century depiction of four ... of Christian saints and holy figures, a form of magic at various ...

The fresco provides crucial evidence of a medieval church using Islamic tents in key Christian practices, including mass, the ...

Unlike later depictions, he is beautiful ... for example, or a holy figure—the better to deceive his victim. Many medieval artists, however, in order to drive home their message, presented ...

A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock full of symbolism, and includes items that show she was martyred.

“The figure of the fool walked off the margins of medieval manuscripts into the ... Dostoevsky’s ‘holy fool’ and Picasso’s ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what ...

In the 14th century, in the carved and painted wooden crucifixes of the type known as Crucifixi dolorosi or doleful crucifixes, the suffering of Christ was accentuated through graphic depictions ...

The satanic figure as understood today is the ... appearance with animalistic traits," Montesano said. Depictions of the devil during the Medieval period were commonly dragon-like, Montesano ...

the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, Gittos and Morcom propose an explanation for when and why the figure was originally cut. They argue that the giant was created as a depiction of ...