The modern medieval castle in Bryn Athyn has closed for renovations until 2023. So it sent its prized 12th-century stained glass to the Philly Art Museum. The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn ...

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 ...

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van ...

In this nonlinear study, Nagel (The Controversy of Renaissance Art), a professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, unravels the common threads running from the pre-Enlightenment era ...

HOW to replace ruined medieval stained-glass windows has over the centuries steadily troubled French civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Time and wars have taken a cruel toll. The great tapestries ...

Jacopo Ligozzi, "A Groundhog or Marmot with a Branch of Plums" (1605), watercolor and ink with white gouache over traces of graphite on burnished laid paper, 13 x 16 5/8 inches (33 x 42.3 cm), held by ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...