Art of Europe’s “Age of Faith”: Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, Moorish, and even Viking. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...

Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages in the art, illustration, and architecture of the Gothic Revival.

No orderly era was the Middle Ages. No orderly survey of it does the Boston Museum attempt to give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever ...

The Middle Ages Modern aesthetic is both darkness and magical thinking; of the past yet also of our own imagining. Perhaps, after a shared transit through hardship, we’re all planting the seeds ...

When looking at medieval art, it is important to recognize that the objects in a modern exhibition are taken out of their original context. Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries ...

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 ...

That sort of statistic isn’t often associated with the art of the Middle Ages, but “The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550,” a new exhibition opening on March 10 at the ...

Soaring Gothic cathedrals of radiant stained glass, plus art celebrating worldly pleasure. As Europe passed A.D. 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with ...