The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Detail of a predella depicting three scenes from the Passion of Christ (northeastern Spain, Crown of Aragon, c. 1440), oil, tempera, gilding and silvering on softwood panel (all photos Natalie ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney meet their historic European predecessors at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles through September 11. Unknown German, Three Horsemen in Armor from the ...

Every generation seems to see something different in Europe’s Middle Ages, the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. To Renaissance scholars, it was a benighted ...

Medieval artists didn’t always have firsthand experience with the animals they painted, and nowhere is that more obvious than in their attempts in history. In manuscripts, animal creatures can be seen ...

WASHINGTON — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no historian had reason to wonder who she was.

Plans have been approved to house an art gallery and shop in a medieval gateway in York's city walls. City of York Council ...

A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 ...

The modern medieval castle in Bryn Athyn has closed for renovations until 2023. So it sent its prized 12th-century stained glass to the Philly Art Museum. The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn ...

Cats have been around forever, yet somehow medieval artists had absolutely no idea how to paint one—or maybe they just ...