Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...
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Medieval art, whether produced in Europe or in neighboring regions, relied on extensive social and economic networks penetrating and connecting Africa, Asia, and Europe. A series of trading posts, ...
When we dismiss the Middle Ages as a dark, regrettable period, we aren't acknowledging what was going on outside Europe. While Europe was a moldering cultural backwater, the Arab world was ...
The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...
Why were the Middle Ages dark? Isn't it true that this epoch conjures up ominous images of superstition and witch-hunting? Burning pyres and plague doctors hurrying strangely muffled along dark ...
Archaeologists in Spain discovered medieval artifacts in bearded vulture nests, including a complete 13th-century esparto ...
It is only a leisurely morning drive north from the Romanian capital of Bucharest to Brasov, a provincial center in the heart of the country. I have always found Brasov to be more sophisticated and ...