I first encountered late-medieval German painting while visiting art museums across West Germany over the course of a “working gap year” from college in the early 1970s. Wanting to learn more about ...
As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...
(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...
The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has reunited one of Germany’s most significant medieval sculptures, the Altenberg Madonna, with the historic Altenberg Altarpiece after a century of separation. The rare ...
A small cache of medieval game pieces has been discovered in the ruins of a recently discovered castle in southern Germany. The finds provide a window into leisure time, possibly among actual knights, ...
A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...
Detail of a predella depicting three scenes from the Passion of Christ (northeastern Spain, Crown of Aragon, c. 1440), oil, tempera, gilding and silvering on softwood panel (all photos Natalie ...
As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...
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