Patterns in the Framing: Patience and The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Patterns in the Framing: Patience and The Hours of Catherine of Cleves By Rita Williams CONCEPT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies (2005)…
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty – Exhibition at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major international exhibition devoted to the art of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)—one of the most…
The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art
The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art By Anna L. DesOrmeaux Master’s Thesis, Louisiana State University, 2004 Abstract: In early…
‘What Manner of Salutation This Should Be’: The Disquieted Gaze in Fra Angelico’s San Marco Annunciation
‘What Manner of Salutation This Should Be’: The Disquieted Gaze in Fra Angelico’s San Marco Annunciation By Grace Johnstone WRECK: graduate journal of…
The season of winter in art and literature from Roman North Africa to medieval France
Winter activities commonly represented in the art of all three periods were feasting, eating and drinking, and hunting boars or killing pigs.
Byzantine Gold Coins and Jewellery: A Study of Gold Contents
The Byzantine Empire slowly changed, of course, being effected by the emergence of Medieval Europe to the West and of Islam to the East and South
New book examines Christian-Muslim cooperation in art in medieval Iraq
The relationship between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East during the Middle Ages is often typified in terms such as conflict and…
Something for Nothing: Pictorial and Material Austerity in the Visual Arts of the Middle Ages
Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 11-14 July, 2011 Something for Nothing: Pictorial and Material Austerity in the Visual Arts of the Middle…
History, origins, recovery: Michelangelo and the politics of art
When Michelangelo returned to Florence from Rome in the early spring of 1501, he returned to a city that had not yet recovered from a profound artistic crisis.
Project to examine images of Hell in the medieval churches of Crete
Frescoes from the island of Crete depicting scenes of Hell and the punishments of the damned are the focus of a new research…
Katedra Oliwska – Gdańsk
Katedra Oliwa is located in the city of Gdańsk, in the Oliwa district of the city. On July 2, 1186, Sambor I Gdański,…
Bielsko-Biała – Katedra św. Mikołaja/Zamek książąt Sułkowskich
Bielsko-Biała is a city in southern Poland located 1 hour south of Katowice and approximately 1 and 1/2 hours south-west of Kraków. Bielsko-Biała…
Cleveland Museum of Art unveils two exhibits on medieval art this fall
This fall, the Cleveland Museum of Art will premiere a groundbreaking exhibition examining the role of relics and reliquaries in the development of…
Groundbreaking Stained Glass Journal celebrates fourth anniversary
Vidimus, the on-line journal of Stained Glass studies, is soon to celebrate its fourth anniversary. The Journal, launched in late 2006, is the…
Mehmed the Conqueror and the Equestrian Statue of the Augustaion
Mehmed the Conqueror and the Equestrian Statue of the Augustaion By J. Raby Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 12:2 (1987) Introduction: One of the…
Max Dvořák and the History of Medieval Art
Max Dvořák and the History of Medieval Art By Hans H. Aurenhammer Journal of Art Historiography, No.2 (2010) Abstract: Max Dvořák is known…
Checkmate! Medieval People at Play – Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects of Play in Medieval Society
We are all familiar with praying monks, but playing monks? A Book of Hours from Flanders finds them deep in a game of “Blind…
New light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s faces
How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage to paint such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis has been done on…
Historian examines medieval grafitti at IMC
Scholars attending the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds heard today about the role of graffiti in the Middle Ages. In…
Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece restored
Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks has gone back on display at the National Gallery in London, England, after 18…
Garima Gospels found to be oldest surviving Christian illustrated manuscripts
Radiocarbon testing has revealed that a pair of illustrated gospels kept in a remote monastery in Ethiopia may have been made as early…
12th-century Crusader fresco to go on display in Israel
An enormous Crusader-era fresco that was discovered in Jerusalem will go on display next month at the Israel Museum. At nine meters long…
Viking Age Archaeology
Viking Age Archaeology By by Richard Hall Shire Books, 2010 (first published in 1990) ISBN: 9780747800637 Viking raids, and the subsequent Scandinavian settlements…
Versions of Pygmalion in the Illuminated Roman de la Rose (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 195): The Artist and the Work of Art
Versions of Pygmalion in the Illuminated Roman de la Rose (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 195): The Artist and the Work of Art…
Innovations in Sculpture and the Status of Artists at the Court of Burgundy
Innovations in Sculpture and the Status of Artists at the Court of Burgundy Lecture by Sherry C.M. Lindquist Given at the Metropolitan Museum…