“As you know,” wrote Boston’s late, fictional George Apley (J. P. Marquand’s The Late George Apley) to his son John, “for a number of years I have been making a collection of Chinese bronzes. . . . I ...

Anyone who has peered over the soft vellum pages of an illuminated manuscript will have marveled over its intricate and colorful designs, which range from stylized floral borders to decorated initials ...

Early Europeans produce diverse art: from Christians to Muslims and Byzantines to Vikings. After Rome’s fall, Europe’s Christians kept culture alive with art rooted in their deep faith. We visit ...

Last month, my wife Mary and I walked through the chapter house of the 12th-century Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut monastery. From there we made our way to the Saint-Guilhem Cloister arcade, which also dates ...

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 ...

Art in the Western World: From Stone Age to End of Middle Ages. Survey of architecture, crafts, painting, and sculpture of the Eastern Mediterranean and European cultures. Note: Recommended for ...

A TASTE for art usually comes to us somewhat late in life, because, in nine cases out of ten, the taste is not cultivated or developed till long after school life. We have, in fact, no regular art ...

Roundabouts Now, a new Kingston exhibition space helmed by gallerists Craig Monteith and Alta Buden, opened on March 15, 2025, with an eclectic exhibition featuring artists from the Hudson Valley and ...

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B. J. Robinson, Ph.D. Laura Getty, Ph.D. The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth ...