Tag: middle ages

  • Medieval Women: In Their Own Words

    While medieval texts may best be understood as a collaborative production, not deriving from a single authorial voice, this blockbuster exhibition nevertheless successfully presents medieval women – from and in all walks of life – in their own words

  • Magical Unicorns

    Throughout history, unicorns have borne the power of intrigue and attraction, and this brief chronology, centring on the Musée de Cluny’s six medieval tapestries, The Lady and the Unicorn, showcases some of the highlights of artistic response

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…