Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the ... Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

from Romanesque Art through the Middle Ages up to the early 20th Century Fra Diamante, "Adoration of the Child and Crucifixion", ca. 1470, oil on wood, dimensions: 45,7 x 52,5; frame: 25 x 49 cm, ...

The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of the Middle Ages, extending into late antiquity and the early modern period, including—but not limited to—history, language, literature, linguistics, ...

the skull could also be a reference to the “dance of death,” the idea of death’s inevitability that was a frequent subject of European art during the late Middle Ages. “Because it has a ...

Now, an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris is celebrating the complex character, following the fool’s dance through art history. Titled “Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the ...

exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the Middle Ages and the 19th century Julia Binswanger Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods ...

THIS week seven years ago a Somerset man opened Britain's only private gallery of fine art inspired by the Middle Ages in the village of Dunster's historic High Street. The Medieval Gallery ...