There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly, well, weird. While paintings and sculptures that remain from most other periods in history were generally produced by trained artists, the ...

To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre. Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and ...

The Medieval Art Industry A new exhibition shows how the Middle Ages turned natural resources like wood and metal into sculptures and stained glass windows. ‘God and the Tree of Knowledge,’ a ...

From fashion to art, we're going medieval in 2025 The nostalgia cycle rarely rewinds this far, but some things are just timeless, like maximalist detail, slow craftsmanship and weird little guys ...

Evidence of these medieval artists' creativity can be seen today. Many of the dragons we find in pop culture — in the popular television series Game of Thrones, for example — are based on ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...