Vox spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor ... And they didn’t want just any old baby—they wanted the baby Jesus (or other biblical kids). Medieval artists subscribed to the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden complex of rooms covered with Christian paintings in Old Dongola, a deserted town in Sudan that was once the capital of medieval Makuria. A team from the ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true ... of Orthodox religious art. A contemporary of Giotto, considered ...

The medieval convent was temporarily closed while ... Hidden underneath, the surprised workers found several centuries-old paintings. The forgotten wall art was likely added to the convent during ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church ... This fresco provides crucial evidence of the influence of Islamic art on medieval European Christianity and indicates a deep appreciation ...

She further noted that the wall paintings help to discover "to what extent such motifs can still be interpreted." The former monastery, located in the heart of Stralsund's old town, houses parts ...

A self-described “proprietress of weird medieval guys,” she shares little 15th-century snail cats, gun-carrying demons, and other oddly charming scenes from centuries-old art along with her ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives ... rediscovering the descendants of those old fruits will be crucial for Italy’s ability to withstand the unpredictable and increasingly dramatic ...

This is not the first brush that the painting — a medieval work by the Florentine artist Cimabue entitled “La Dérision du Christ,” which dates to approximately 1280 — has had with ...

the art of late medieval and early Renaissance Tuscany, and those who lived among it. Like his grandfather, he had trained as a conservator at the centuries-old Uffizi Gallery in Florence.