Medieval art is a treasure trove of weirdness. And we’re not the only ones to think so. Daniel Holland created a Twitter thread about medieval animals in paintings that look nothing like real animals ...

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Before photography and global travel, artists relied on second-hand descriptions of exotic animals. That sometimes led to ...

The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney meet their historic European predecessors at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles through September 11. Unknown German, Three Horsemen in Armor from the ...

Every generation seems to see something different in Europe’s Middle Ages, the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. To Renaissance scholars, it was a benighted ...

Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...

The modern medieval castle in Bryn Athyn has closed for renovations until 2023. So it sent its prized 12th-century stained glass to the Philly Art Museum. The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn ...

(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 ...