News

Readers in search of inspiration from Ian Fleming’s Jane Bond Series, Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland, Diana Gabalon’s ...
An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.
The key to the Pyx Chamber, a low, vaulted room dating to the 11th century where royal gold and silver coins were stored in wooden chests (pyxis in Greek). Jooney Woodward Robinson, an amiable man ...
The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned ... Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run ...
Christine de Pisan helped craft the beautifully illustrated manuscripts of her literary ... often the subject of the illustrations. In a 15th-century edition of her 1405 work One Hundred Ballads ...
Major renovations at an 11th century Cookham church are almost complete – with expectations that it will be open by at least early June - and the process has unearthed some unexpected pieces of ...
My intervention centred on Maltese and Italians in contact in early 19th century Tunisia ... after the Vatican Library of religious books and manuscripts. The paper I presented was entitled ...
As the Steam blurb explains, “The game’s visuals are inspired by XIIIth century illuminated manuscripts and the environments have been hand-drawn by medieval specialists following authentic ...
Written as Islam swept across the Iberian Peninsula, the Silos Apocalypse, a 10th-century illuminated manuscript ... from Arab and Islamic art. In the 11th century monks of the Abbey of Santo ...
Today, when world-famous artworks are typically encountered behind glass in museum settings, it’s hard to imagine anyone cutting up paintings by artists as renowned as Édouard Manet or Paul ...