Medieval art is a treasure trove of weirdness. And we’re not the only ones to think so. Daniel Holland created a Twitter thread about medieval animals in paintings that look nothing like real animals ...
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A new museum exhibit shows that medieval people were just as obsessed with their cats as we are today
A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some depictions from the Middle Ages already raise questions. However, when you look at animal drawings, you often find that they ...
Over the summer, two representatives from the Department of Art History and Art traveled to a conference in Canterbury, England. Graduate students Laura Rybicki and Cecily Hughes Laura Rybicki, an MA ...
The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...
Unknown artist, A Salamander; France (formerly Flanders); (circa 1270 CE); tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 7 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.; Ms. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 95v; A Franco-Flemish ...
A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...
The biblical tale mentions only two Noah’s Ark animals—so for centuries artists have filled in the gaps with both fantastic tales and emerging science. Cows, elephants, giraffes ... and is that a ...
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