An illustration from a medieval French manuscript depicts the Polo brothers’ meeting with ... According to Lauren Arnold, an ...
Visiting Ireland has long been on my bucket list, so when my daughter decided to study abroad there for a semester, it was ...
It might seem crass to talk about money when a story is about art, but it’s hard to discuss ... jewels of antiquity, medieval manuscripts, decorative arts, and what may be the world’s best ...
The exhibition is punctuated with showstopper pieces, one of the finest being a magnificent gold-hilted dagger and scabbard ...
Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. 'If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he ...
Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...
The Los Angeles museum presents a spectacular if scattershot show containing over 100 works, ranging from medieval ...
At that time, in a local workshop, an exceptionally rare 13th century bible was produced for the cathedral by the acclaimed medieval artist ... to do so before the manuscript, currently in private ...
The manuscript survived in Iran more or less intact until the late 19th century, but by 1910 it had been acquired by a Belgian art dealer, who took the volume apart and sold the pages individually ...
That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic. Previously known only ...
After their discovery in 2019, the manuscripts were examined by Bristol's Professor Leah Tether of the International Arthurian Society and her husband, medieval historian Dr Benjamin Pohl ...