How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Public domain. For nearly forty years, Early Drama, Art, and Music (EDAM) has established a reputation for publishing specialized, high-quality scholarship through Medieval Institute Publications. The ...

From March 25 to July 20, 2025, the Musée de Cluny in Paris will be hosting "Convoquer les Chimères", an exhibition featuring ...

When looking at medieval art, it is important to recognize that the objects in a modern exhibition are taken out of their original context. Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries ...

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 ...

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

The series' editorial board is hosted by the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. Edited by Jessica Brantley, Stephen Perkinson and Elizabeth C. Teviotdale This volume offers fresh ...

flooding the backgrounds of painting after painting in sheets of shining gilded glow. Well, what did you expect of medieval representations of the Saviour of the World and his Mother? Certainly ...

This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...

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 ...