The nostalgia cycle rarely rewinds this far, but some things are just timeless, like maximalist detail, slow craftsmanship and weird little guys.
1275-1300, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ella Brummer in memory of her husband ... The authors show how it traveled from one capital to the other, narrating the entire life and ...
Now, an exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, examines how they looked to medieval art for inspiration ... it has this very modern attitude,” von Bonsdorff tells the Times.
1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, gift of William Mathewson Milliken, 1932.537. Public domain.
Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between medieval intentions and modern appreciation. To the people of the Middle Ages, the material contained inside a reliquary far outweighed the ...
The John Rylands Library houses exceptional medieval and early-modern treasures and offers many exciting research and study opportunities. Staff teaching on this MA represent the disciplines of ...
Meanwhile, red bronze and garnets signify blood and pain, which came to symbolize strength and courage in Medieval ... Joy BC's modern reinterpretation of Antiquity as jewelry art has won her ...