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 reasoning, like all things artistic in the Middle Ages, has to do with Jesus. Back then, the church commissioned most of the portraits of babies and children.

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 Golden Era of the Middle Ages . ... Middle Ages, a profound crisis for the Church in the face of the Protestant Reformation, and a return to the fashions of Greco-Roman society through art, ...

Now, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by juxtaposing medieval art with the modern creations it inspired.

In the Middle Ages scholars followed the idea from Antiquity that there were seven primary colours – white, yellow, red and blue, purple and black, with green in the middle, balanced between them.

This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the ...

In the collective imagination, the Middle Ages were an eternal valley of tears. Here, the Crucifixion, part of the central panel of the altar of the Franciscan church in Munich, by Jan Polack ...

In the art of the late Middle Ages, both St. George and the archangel Michael were typically depicted wearing contemporary military armor, as if they were feudal knights.

Of course, members of the Trump administration aren’t sending soldiers to Vatican City; the Catholic church no longer has anywhere near the political influence that it possessed in the Middle Ages.

Banking, trading, and capitalism found their roots in medieval Europe. As a new exhibition shows, people were just as divided over them as we are now. In Death and the Miser, a Dutch painting from ...

Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...