In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy . They foster critical ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

Although their approaches diverged, Corita Kent and Andy Warhol were central figures in the 1960s Pop Art movement.

The medieval astronomical instrument comes from the 11th-century Al-Andalus region, which is now modern-day Spain. The ...

This mystical site, which sits along one of Europe's most beautiful stretches of coastline, is one of the continent's last ...

Credit: Ayuntamiento de Marbella The city of Marbella (Málaga, Spain) has witnessed an archaeological discovery that could rewrite the history of prehistoric art on the Iberian Peninsula. In the Coto ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

The University of Chicago Press is honored to share that several articles in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies have won prizes from major organizations. These three articles join a long list of ...

For example, his reception hall in the Magnaura Palace in Constantinople featured some of the most extraordinary automata of the medieval world. Here is what a visitor to the Byzantine palaces would ...

A wool and linen fragment of a decorative band from Byzantine ... for classical art, but not exclusively so. “Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture ...