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Art History What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines. One of the oldest Valentine's in the world proves chivalry wasn't always dead.
Titled Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality (until 10 March), the show turns works of art, manuscripts and other objects into a prism to examine the economic revolution that took place in ...
This video explains why knights in medieval art fought snails. ... (you can peruse a few colorful, snail-filled examples courtesy of Yale’s library and the British Library).
Olivia Swarthout has brought medieval art to the masses (460K Twitter followers and counting) ... the Morgan Library in New York, the National Library of France, and a slew of others.
The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail ...
She studied art, graphic design and history at Whitworth University, graduating in 2014, and found the art of medieval manuscript illustration to be a perfect blend of her areas of study.
Visitors to the exhibition Now and Forever: the Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, will find that the Middle Ages are not so different or distant from our own.
The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...
Tagged: medieval art, Morgan Library, New York, Reviews Natasha Seaman Natasha Seaman is a professor of art history at Rhode Island College with a specialty in 17th-century Dutch painting.
Scholes Library is hosting an exhibition of brass rubbings – images captured on paper from brass monuments laid in the floors of medieval churches. The collection has been curated by Alfred University ...