Museum offers best new online view of the Bayeux Tapestry
Making use of 2.6 billion pixels, the most detailed digital version of the Bayeux Tapestry has been released online. It offers unprecedented views of the 11th-century embroidery.
From India to Byzantium, with Paroma Chatterjee
A conversation with Paroma Chatterjee on Indian perspectives and approaches to Byzantium.
Online Dante exhibition released by the Uffizi
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence have launched a new online exhibition to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri. It will showcase dozens of illustrations created in the sixteenth century to showcase The Divine Comedy.
What microbiologists see when they look at Da Vinci’s drawings
The microbial composition of art pieces can reveal interesting facts about their past and the journey they made.
Armenian Art, with Christina Maranci
A conversation about Armenian art – ancient and Christian – with Christina Maranci, based on her book The Art of Armenia: An Introduction.
Norway – Catalonia: Medieval Art, a shared artistic heritage
The online conference is part of the collaboration on the exhibition “North & South”, which brings together, for the first time, a selection of examples of medieval altar art from Norway and Catalonia, two regions at the northern and southern edge of the continent.
From Slide Projectors to Rosslyn Chapel, with Lizzie Swarbrick
What can we learn about art and architecture in medieval Scotland? On this episode of Scotichronicast, Kate Buchanan is joined by Lizzie Swarbrick to discuss Lizzie’s journey to studying Rosslyn Chapel and other Scottish churches.
Portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror returns to Istanbul
There are only three surviving portraits of the Ottoman ruler Mehmed II, better known as Mehmed the Conqueror. One of them has just been purchased by the city of Istanbul for £777,000.
New way of dating medieval paintings revealed
They have been able to prove their methods by examining wall paintings from the Late Middle Ages in a castle in Burgundy and a church in Switzerland.
Medieval Graffiti with Matthew Champion
This week’s episode of The Medieval Podcast is about one of the places where art and memory, serious messages and playful doodles intersect: graffiti.
Finding Sir Lancelot in Medieval Poland
Today, being the world’s only Lancelot wall paintings preserved in situ, the Siedlęcin set ranks among the most outstandingly complete and well preserved in Europe.
A 1000-year-old mystery solved: Unlocking the molecular structure for the medieval blue from Chrozophora tinctoria, also known as folium
In medieval times, the blue and purple solutions extracted from C. tinctoria were stored, after adsorption onto cloth and drying, as watercolors (clothlets), and were applied as paint by cutting a piece of cloth and extracting its color with the appropriate binding medium.
‘I Felt like Jumping for Joy’: Smile and Laughter in Medieval Imagery
With a starting point in ‘the gothic smiles’ of the sculptures of the great cathedrals in the thirteenth century, my aim is to draw attention to the importance of international ideals in local affairs.
10 Books about Medieval Art you can now download for free, courtesy The Met
Whether you are interested in the rise of Gothic art in 12th century France, or the arms and armor of the samurai in Japan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has something for you. The museum is making freely available hundreds of previously published books, as part of their new online and social media initiatives.
The Uncanny Face of the Mystic Lamb
A recent art restoration has left people baffled. This is the uncovering of the original face of Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Mystic Lamb.
Rare 15th-century bust discovered in England
A carved 15th-century sculpture displayed on top of a cupboard at Anglesey Abbey in central England has been discovered to be a unique reliquary bust, previously thought to have been lost to the art world.
Cimabue painting to be declared national treasure, kept in France
France’s culture ministry has announced that “Christ Mocked” a painting by the 13th century artist Cimabue, is to be kept in the country as a national treasure.
16th century nativity scene discovered under painting
Art experts have experienced something of a Christmas miracle after discovering what could be a 16th century painting of a nativity scene hidden under another work of art.
Viewing the Bayeux Tapestry, Now and Then
In attempting to trace the history of the Bayeux Tapestry, it has always been the case that the simplest explanation, the one that involves the fewest imponderables and requires the fewest assumptions, is that it was designed for Bayeux cathedral.
Getty Museum opens Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art
The Getty Center Museum has opened its latest exhibition that focuses on the Middle Ages. Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art opened yesterday and will run to February 16, 2020.
The Bayeux Tapestry was made for Bayeux Cathedral, study finds
New research suggests the Tapestry was designed to be hung along the north, south and west sides of the nave of Bayeux Cathedral, between the west wall and choir screen.
Major Leonardo da Vinci exhibition begins at the Louvre
The Musée du Louvre has opened a major exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci, commemorating the 500-year anniversary of his death.
KU Leuven researchers reveal deepest layers of Bruegel drawings
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, the city of Brussels is organising an exhibition on a few of the master’s original drawings as well as a unique series of prints based on these drawings.
Why some greens turn brown in historical paintings
Copper acetate (also known as verdigris) and copper resinate were used in European easel paintings between the 15th and 17th centuries
Medieval wall paintings at risk, English Heritage says
England’s painted past is at risk, English Heritage warned last month, as the charity revealed the catalogue of threats causing the country’s precious wall paintings to deteriorate and decay.