Spaceship cathedrals meet QR codicies.

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 medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...

Medieval artists didn’t always have firsthand experience with the animals they painted, and nowhere is that more obvious than in their attempts in history. In manuscripts, animal creatures can be seen ...

An opportunity to see the work of printmaker Albrecht Dürer, known as 'Leonardo of the North', is one not to be missed, writes… An opportunity to see the work of printmaker Albrecht Dürer, known as ...

Medieval art can sometimes surprise you, with its rich colors and expressive subjects. But sometimes, you’re also caught off guard by the shock of noticing the presence of a guy in a spaceship in a ...

At left: Also cataloged by the Index of Christian Art is "Noah Leaving the Ark," an image from "Chronique Universelle," a manuscript owned by the Morgan Library. The manuscript, possibly Flemish or ...

Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons fill the Getty Center’s galleries this summer. A new exhibition plumbs ...

Created around 1250, the small stained glass panel “God and the Tree of Knowledge” most likely illuminated a cathedral in Troyes, France. To the faithful, its depiction of Christ in the Garden of ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...