Art of Europe’s “Age of Faith”: Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, Moorish, and even Viking. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...

The film discusses the art of the Middle Ages, emphasizing its role in expressing the mystical faith of the time. It highlights the importance of medieval cathedrals, particularly in France, and ...

Ultimately, the exhibition’s scattershot nature is negligible. “The Middle Ages” is a teaser, establishing Roundabouts Now as a multifaceted program worth watching in the Hudson Valley art ...

How Gothic Art From the Middle Ages Inspired Modern Artists An exhibition in Oslo considers how artists like Edvard Munch and Käthe Kollwitz embraced the expressive potential of medieval art ...

Exhibit: How an evolving science of light in the ‘long Middle Ages’ influenced generations of artists and scholars. Far from a “dark age,” the medieval era was a time of explosive academic ...

Medieval Art’s Enduring Hold on Pop Culture In a new exhibition at the Getty, prints and paintings from the Middle Ages sit beside pop culture artifacts ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

The Middle Ages and Renaissance saw multiple economic innovations that laid the groundwork for modern capitalism, starting with the production of low-value coins for everyday trade.

Baby Jesus with a six-pack. | Bequest of Edward Fowles, 1971, Metropolitan Museum of Art // Public Domain The reasoning, like all things artistic in the Middle Ages, has to do with Jesus.

An exhibition at the Louvre traverses centuries as it follows the evolution of the fool, who has long served as a reflection of our own self-image.

In the Middle Ages, art was the advertising of the day, a perspective-shaping tool. Artists were hired by the powerful to inspire and also to promote conformity.