A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock ...

Epic snail-on-knight combat showed up as often in medieval manuscripts as Kilroy across Europe. “But the ubiquity of these depictions ... scene could represent the Resurrection, or it could ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what ...

Some scholars suspect that the image represents an allusion to the biblical resurrection ... medieval artists may have been painting the Lombards as “cowardly and malicious” by depicting ...

In Blood: Medieval/Modern, the colour photograph is contrasted with medieval depictions of Saint Veronica holding what is known as the Sudarium, a miraculous image of Christ revealed from the ...

Early depictions of the afterlife in ancient Greece ... damned suffered torturous and unending punishment. Even after the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, the wicked would ...

death and resurrection, we are honored to feature this sacred art from around the world," said Dr. Bobby Duke, chief curatorial officer at Museum of the Bible. "These depictions focus on one of ...

A 500-year-old artefact is one of the earliest depictions of a mythical figure from medieval Europe, an expert has claimed. Metal detectorists found the spoon handle with an engraving of "Wild Man ...

Only now, the Vatican says a detail in a newly cleaned 15th century fresco shows what may be one of the first European depictions of Native Americans. The fresco, The Resurrection, was painted by ...