From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building: a boxy, white structure with a single steeple surrounded by an old stone wall, ...

Birds and animals have been speaking to humans for as long as one can remember Theres a story behind every animal or bird behaviour if legends can have it Whether you believe the animal kingdom to be ...

A look at what makes a work of art genuinely surreal via the work of Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Read more about it here.

The Armenian Museum of America of Watertown (Boston) recently announced a new exhibition of 45 works by Armenian-American ...

At the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, two spring exhibitions explore how artists interpret shifting environments—both natural and imagined.

A festival of art, music, talks and pilgrimage is to be held in Shrewsbury as part of an international celebration marking 1,700 years since one of the most important events in the history of the ...

Kadagan/Shutterstock Consider Rabat a time capsule of the last millennium: Inside its historic walls you’ll find 500-year-old ...

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good ...

In the early 2010s, antiquity dealers began approaching Israeli institutions with startling offerings: centuries-old manuscripts that had been found in the caves of northern Afghanistan.

Like the portraits of secular donors in medieval altarpieces, they are much smaller than the grand sacred ... “proceed from a correct understanding of the doctrine of Sunyata,” the enlightened source ...

Additionally, the work draws from Western artistic traditions referencing medieval European tapestries and illuminated manuscripts from the ... while also aligning with the geometric ornamentation ...

The mammal was rarely depicted in medieval art, and neither did it hold a place in heraldry. “This lack of representation might have contributed to a detachment from the animal’s true identity ...