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, ...

The Middle Ages aren’t just about heroic knights and epic battles. If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and it ...

Lily Stockman is a time traveler of the imagination: medieval Bruges, Trecento Siena, the gem markets of Jaipur, India, coastal Maine, 19th-century New England Shakers, and Los Angeles all flicker up ...

Unknown artist, "Snail" (c. 1350), The Netherlands, illumination on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (image via Wikimedia Commons) "Very often, people think that they're laughing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some depictions from the Middle Ages already raise questions. However, when you look at animal drawings, you often find that they ...

At the opening of “Late Medieval Panel Paintings” at Richard Feigen Gallery on the Upper East Side, a group of people had formed around one particularly gruesome work, The Torture of the Maccabean ...

Animals with human eyes, elephants with dog snouts, and beavers with fish tails–were medieval artists simply bad at painting? Not at all. There’s more to these quirky creatures than meets the eye.