Readers in search of inspiration from Ian Fleming’s Jane Bond Series, Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland, Diana Gabalon’s ...

The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

Decoding Medieval Manuscripts, aims to debunk the notion that they were always thus. “Just as we understand emojis or the ...

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 ...

11th-century mosaic depicting St. Theodore the Studite ... Their scriptorium was legendary, churning out stunningly illuminated manuscripts that set artistic standards far and wide. And the rules they ...

Dubrovka venit ad Miskonem’ (Dąbrówka arrives at Mieszko’s court) – a manuscript with these words, dating back a thousand years, can be viewed in the halls of the Krasiński Palace in Warsaw. In the ...

(WALA) - The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts ... from the late fourteenth century, a large Bifolio of a Spanish ...

From Hijazi script dating to the second half of the 7th century ... These manuscripts, dating from the 11th to the 19th centuries, are adorned with gilded borders, illuminated panels, and ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated ... ninth century, probably by Celtic Christian monks on the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. The manuscript ...

Around 1300, scholars in Europe revisited this thinking and began reproducing manuscripts of Ptolemy ... the Midwest and Southeast U.S. By the 11th century, Mississippian people had developed ...