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 ...

These words, later absorbed mainly from texts from the late Middle Ages, such as Jacobus da Voragine's Golden Legend (1298), directly influenced the depiction of Christmas in the centres which shaped ...

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of the Middle Ages, extending into late antiquity and the early modern period, including—but not limited to—history, language, literature, linguistics, ...

She thinks van Gogh was tuned in to a late 19th-century trend that revived ... to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages.

Physicians from Islamic countries during the late Middle Ages enjoyed great respect ... and practices from Islam’s golden age. THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground ...

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Of interest to scholars in a range of topics, The Temple of Peace in Rome crosses the boundaries between classics, archaeology, history of architecture, and art history, through Late Antiquity, the ...

Sequestered cardinals would not tarry in long discussions, especially when they were away from the comfort of their own palaces, allowed only a single attendant and sleeping in simple cells. If they ...

After a bit of back-and-forth (there were so many options), we decided on a 14-night sailing in mid-to-late September, when, ...

Advances in fertility technology like egg freezing and in-vitro fertilization have made pregnancy in your 40s and 50s even ...