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

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

a medieval East Slavic state that later became part of Russia. Known as Gramota No. 200, Onfim's self-portrait includes his Cyrillic alphabet exercises above a drawing of a horse, a sword-like ...

Now, researchers believe they may have identified the only known portrait of the so-called “Nine Days Queen” painted before her death. Following the death of Edward VI in 1553, unscrupulous ...

Though past research has turned up a handful of medieval manuscripts penned by women, the study provides “statistical support for the often-overlooked contributions of female scribes over time ...

“While remarkable examples of Medieval manuscripts penned by women ... Another colophon analyzed in the study included a portrait of a woman, who appears to be a nun. The inclusion of ...