Medieval & Renaissance Art
Stories about medieval and Renaissance art, 800 to 1500 CE
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unaulutu: Pebbles in the Sand
A rare artist’s book from East Germany
An ASMR Unboxing Video
A tickle, tap, whisper, art experience
PST ART at Getty
New Getty shows will explore the wonders of light, medieval astrology, the microscopic, and what happens when you put artists and engineers in a room together
Excavating Your Pantry for an Ancient Roman Meal
Three simple recipes to help you eat like a Roman
Surprises as an Ancient Statue Is Prepped to Receive Its Missing Head
Eduardo Sanchez uncovered a cryptic message and evidence of a 20th-century beheading
Witnessing Winter with Hendrick Avercamp, the ‘Mute from Kampen’
It’s time to re-frame assumptions about this ‘Little Ice Age’ painter
Decadent Dining at a Royal Coronation
Inside a historic, extravagant 17th-century feast
Dragonflies and Drought
A 17th-century drawing records the migration of a dragonfly swarm and the weather conditions that might have triggered it
Why Is It Winter in So Many Dutch Paintings?
Blame the Ice Age… no, not that one
Find Love, Adventure, and Extraordinary Worlds in Tiny Manuscript Spaces
Explore a 15th-century epic through dazzling illustrations