A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

Lucile Gauvain uses medieval imagery of death, chaos and revelry to parse contemporary life. Courtesy of artist and House of ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

Throughout human history, people have appealed, through prayer, to a divine power or powers for hope, solace, counsel, omens, and forgiveness. For Roman Catholics, one of the central rituals of their ...

After one of her most controversial fashion choices at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on 1, 2026, Chappell Roan set the ...

The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

The Smithsonian ’s National Museum of Asian Art announced that it was returning three medieval bronze sculptures to India ...

In her second solo exhibition with Pilar Corrias, artist Georg Wilson mines histories of poisonous plants and their medicinal ...

Among the Mogao Caves' nearly 500 chambers and temples, a space known as Cave 17 revealed thousands of extraordinary objects.