Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons fill the Getty Center’s galleries this summer. A new exhibition ...

From that original caricature, snails and knights became a trope in medieval marginal art. As the video shows, medieval marginal art was an unusual playground for surreal and fantastic drawings.

The Green Knight bills itself as an "epic fantasy adventure" which calls to mind some specific tropes--monsters, for one, and big fight scenes. Real Lord of the Rings stuff, which is actually ...

Snails wielding swords and fighting off knights. Elephants that look like oversized golden retrievers. Dogs with uncanny proportions and hauntingly human eyes. Cats wearing clothes and playing ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But ...

He was to be an ornament in his lord’s court: affable and restrained, eloquent, and skilled in music, the hunt and the art of courtly flirting. Prowess remained, however, a knight's central quality.

The one note David Lowery kept giving his composer, Daniel Hart, was: “Be weirder.” Lowery’s film was already as weird as its source, the 14th century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ...