By Amalini De Sayrah / 05.23.2016 All Photos from Amalini De Sayrah, Groundviews The skies overhead were overcast. Strong...
Art History
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters (Oct. 2001) Book Cover...
The Royal Game of Ur 2600 BC By Peter Attia DiceyGoblin Within the past few years board...
Eastman Johnson’s ‘A Ride for Liberty’ (ca. 1862) depicts a family of slaves galloping for the safety...
Medieval Armor / Metropolitan Museum of Art By Dr. Graham N. Askew, Dr. Federico Formenti,...
Roman Barcino (Modern Barcelona) By Dr. Hector A. Orengo and Dr. Ada Cortés Vicente Orengo –...
Drawing of a grave from a Carthusian miscellany of poems, chronicles, and treatises in Northern English, including...
French “Indienne”, “Le Grand Corail”, a printed or painted textile in the manner of Indian productions, which used mordants...
Viking Longship / Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The artistic and architectural stylistic, methodological...
Dr. Alixe Bovey investigates the influence of astrology, religion and magic on medical knowledge and practice. By...
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo...
Maps on the Web By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief “A man of eighty,” wrote Lord Byron,...
Illustrated scene from the Aeneid, a fantastic work of propaganda by Vergil to exalt the Roman Empire...
Porch of Maidens, Acroplis, Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Editor-in-Chief, Brewminate The art and...
Book conservator Catherine Badot-Costello uses a microscope to work on an illuminated, bound parchment manuscript from Houghton...
Dido and Aeneas / Creative Commons Book I of the Aeneid contains a masterfully created scene that...
Charlemagne Equestrian Statue (left), Charlemagne Golden Reliquary (center), Charlemagne’s Throne (right) By Matthew A. McIntosh...
Miniature of a manticore, a creature with the body of a lion, the head of a man,...
The Church was a powerful force in medieval England. Here Dr Alixe Bovey examines how the Church...
Time to make room for a new face / Reuters By Dr. Harcourt Fuller Assistant Professor of...
By Mark Cartwright The ancient Greeks built open-air theatres where the public could watch the performances of...
From the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus / Creative Commons Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntosh Public Historian Brewminate...
Dr. Steven L. Tuck, Miami University / Great Courses By Mary Harrsch Roman Times Recently, I watched...
Creative Commons By Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly Professors of History and Art History...
Courteous reader, this ensuing treatise hath lien by mee a long time, penned, but in a confused...
By Andrea Russo “She checks her belongings, stored in the leather backpack sewn by her father. Candle,...
By Dr. Lea Olsan Former Professor of Medieval Literature University of Louisiana Wellcome MS. 632 may be...
Dante’s epic 14th-century poem the Divine Comedy – with its dazzling descriptions of all manner of hellish...
Detail from Add MS 37955 A: a miniature of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
A View through Three of the Northwestern Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum in Rome...