Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

When looking at medieval art, it is important to recognize that the objects in a modern exhibition are taken out of their original context. Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries ...

At the National Museum of Denmark stands this impeccably detailed 14th-century vessel, embodying the place of fine art and ...

The compositions feel perfectly balanced, the colour exquisitely pretty: subtle contrasts of lilac-inflected greys and salmon pink in the Annunciation, one of the most popular medieval paintings ...