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A Dutch art detective has discovered a pair of Medieval carved reliefs that were stolen from an ancient Spanish church in 2004. The detective, Arthur Brand, found the seventh-century visigothic ...

More than a quarter of a century ago when I first began to explore the plant realm, I remember a visit I made one warm afternoon in June was to an old Salem garden where sweet William and foxgloves, ...

Olivia Swarthout has brought medieval art to the masses (460K Twitter followers and counting) but she’s not formally trained in medieval history or art. A self-described “proprietress of weird ...

Created around 1250, the small stained glass panel “God and the Tree of Knowledge” most likely illuminated a cathedral in Troyes, France. To the faithful, its depiction of Christ in the Garden of ...

Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...

(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...