While the fool is often associated with the Middle Ages, the figure’s role evolved a great deal in the centuries that followed. Now, an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris is celebrating the complex ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore, affirm, and sometimes challenge social roles and relationships. Medieval people defined themselves and their neighbors through ...

In Poland the miraculous birth of the Saviour has been widely represented through a range of works inspired by Matthew and Luke's literary depictions in evangelical texts, from Romanesque Art through ...