To many involved in the art world, notions of exhibitions featuring “the medieval period” may conjure images of Byzantine crosses encrusted with jewels, European saints and castles featured in Gothic ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

Before the Cleveland Museum of Art started its $350 million expansion and renovation in 2005, the galleries that housed Islamic art and late Gothic and Renaissance art from Europe were downright ...

The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with glorious stained-glass windows. The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with colorful light shining through glorious ...

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Snails wielding swords and fighting off knights. Elephants that look like oversized golden retrievers. Dogs with uncanny proportions and hauntingly human eyes. Cats wearing clothes and playing musical ...

Death and the devil. Nudity and eroticism. Horror. With its daring subjects and blazing colors, the art of the Gothic period captivated viewers some 500 years ago, and still affects us deeply, today.