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 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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

♪ This later period of the Middle Ages saw the rise of groundbreaking artists like Giotto, who incorporated unprecedented realism and emotion into religious paintings for a church in need of reform.