In the Middle Ages, art was the advertising of the day, a perspective-shaping tool. Artists were hired by the powerful to inspire and also to promote conformity.

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Ultimately, the exhibition’s scattershot nature is negligible. “The Middle Ages” is a teaser, establishing Roundabouts Now as a multifaceted program worth watching in the Hudson Valley art ...

"As you know," wrote Boston's late, fictional George Apley (J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley) to his son John, "for a number of years I have been making a collection of ...

Due to history's patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages.Yet women who challenged the status quo have always existed, even then ...

Medieval Art’s Enduring Hold on Pop Culture In a new exhibition at the Getty, prints and paintings from the Middle Ages sit beside pop culture artifacts ...

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000), "Concept Art" (1958), from Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney ... to 500 CE, the generally agreed upon start of the Middle Ages, which is a contemporary term for a ...

In the Middle Ages European artists and theologians shaped a new terrifying vision of Satan and the punishments awaiting sinners in his realm. Seated on a fiery throne, Satan devours a damned soul ...

Although perhaps "garish," the recent painting of a 15th-century statue is actually quite true to the original spirit of the piece. Although we tend to think of the ancient and medieval worlds as ...