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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animals with human eyes, elephants with dog snouts, and beavers with fish tails–were medieval artists simply bad at painting? Not at all. There’s more to these quirky creatures than meets the eye.