From Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, pop culture is saturated with medieval imagery. Now, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by ...
To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre. Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and fantastical ...
This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...
Gold from West Africa was the engine that drove the movement of things, people, and ideas across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East in an interconnected medieval world. As the incredible works in ...
Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...
Learn how historical re-enactors, Robin Cacy and Veronica Tatum bring medieval cuisine to life. Ever wondered how people cooked in the Middle Ages? At Alaska's Three Barons' Renaissance Fair, ...