In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

In the Middle Ages, as today, visual art offered an avenue to explore ... other markers of identity were used by artists and understood by viewers in medieval Europe.

Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe ..

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent ...

The Art of Dying and the Art of Loving in Medieval and Early Modern Europe." This time, I draw upon Ian Mortimer's book ...

Portrayals of Jews in obscene association with female pigs were used as a way of mocking them and their religion in the Middle Ages. Mr Düllmann told local broadcaster MDR ahead of the ruling ...