A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars ...

Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Over time, the memorable creatures that were central to the bestiary tradition pervaded the visual vocabulary of the medieval world, becoming some of the most common symbols in art of the period. Even ...

1850–1750 BCE), faience and paint, 5 inches (12.7 cm) (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art) In northeast Sudan lies the Bayuda Desert, home to the Medieval Christian monastery ...

Related: Medieval pendant found in a garbage pit may ... According to legend, she lived in the fourth century and was a Christian missionary who converted people to Christianity and protested ...

With this publication, in which all the major illumination is reproduced in color, both scholars and museum visitors can appreciate the missal more fully as one of the outstanding monuments of ...