Due to history's patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages. Yet women who challenged the status quo have always existed, even then. One ...

?Carpe diem, Latin for “seize the day,” applies to work by Chico’s Hilarie and James Cornwell, owners of Cornwell ScribeWorks. The day (or two or more) being seized, however, has nothing to do with ...

When we think of illuminated manuscripts we naturally tend to think of decorated codices, mainly on religious—although occasionally on secular—topics, made in medieval Europe now carefully preserved ...

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is opening two new exhibitions Saturday. One examines centuries-old artistic practices, and one addresses the institution’s own history. The first ...

Christine de Pizan awakened by Reason, Rectitude, and Justice (detail), F. 1r from Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre des trois Vertus, Paris, France (c. 1405), Boston Public Library, MS f Med. 101 BOSTON, ...

Whether you’re a Bible-thumper, enlightened Buddhist, or totally faithless, you can’t deny that spirituality has birthed some great art. The cave drawings of Lascaux weren’t the caveman’s version of a ...

Christ washing the feet of the apostles, from a prayer book illuminated by Master of Claude de France, circa 1518–20. (Harvard University, Houghton Library) The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston ...

ST. LOUIS — The image glows 30 feet away. Up close, its gold embellishment is meant to awe, and reflect, an onlooker. Using techniques hundreds of years old, a handmade Bible brings an ancient ...

Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum is returning a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of the New Testament that dates back to 12th-century Greece, reports AFA news. The piece has been missing from the ...

?Carpe diem, Latin for “seize the day,” applies to work by Chico’s Hilarie and James Cornwell, owners of Cornwell ScribeWorks. The day (or two or more) being seized, however, has nothing to do with ...