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 ...

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 ...

Medieval artists are not known for their life-like accuracy. They doodled killer bunnies in the margins of their manuscripts and painted lions as goofy, grimacing felines. But if you’ve ever found ...

Dr. Jack Hartnell, an honorary associate professor of art history at the University of East Anglia in England and head of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Pierpont Morgan, if not rolling in his grave right now, may be shifting uncomfortably: many books from his very own collection of medieval manuscripts are on display at his very own library, ...

She came to slay. At the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, pop star Chappell Roan performed "Good Luck Babe" amid the clang and clatter of choreographed swordplay. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV) It's a ...