BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum is hosting an exhibition that offers visitors a glimpse into the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and wondrous objects of gold, silver and precious gems filled churches and monastic t…
Rijksmuseum Anounces Two Acquisitions that Highlight the Birth of Christ
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum will celebrate Christmas 2010 with two exceptional acquisitions that highlight the birth of Christ. It recently acquired an extremely rare silver ‘prayer nut’, containing miniature carvings only millimetres in size…
Celebrate Christmas at the Rijksmuseum with Two Acquisitions that Highlight the Birth of Christ
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum will celebrate Christmas 2010 with two exceptional acquisitions that highlight the birth of Christ. It recently acquired an extremely rare silver ‘prayer nut’, containing miniature carvings only millimetres in size…
Sotheby’s to Offer the Rochefoucauld Grail: Witness of the Legend of King Arthur
LONDON.- It is the greatest romance of chivalry produced in the Middle Ages, and its themes of friendship, treachery, ambition, achievement and star-crossed tragic lovers form the foundations of much of our modern literature. The stories of the quest f…
Sotheby’s to Offer the Rochefoucauld Grail: Principal Witness of the Legend of King Arthur
LONDON.- It is the greatest romance of chivalry produced in the Middle Ages, and its themes of friendship, treachery, ambition, achievement and star-crossed tragic lovers form the foundations of much of our modern literature. The stories of the quest f…
Städel Museum Opens “In Chronological Order: Städel Works of the 14th to 21st Centuries”
FRANKFURT.- The holdings of the Städel Museum comprise masterpieces of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The temporary closure of its galleries in the course of the redevelopment measures carried out in the old building as part of…
France 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the Galeries nationales Grand Palais
PARIS.- This exhibition explores a time of unprecedented artistic contact and creative effervescence in France, which many people know little about. It is the first major exhibition devoted to a turning point in French history, in the reigns of Charles…
France 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at the Galeries nationales Grand Palais
PARIS.- This exhibition explores a time of unprecedented artistic contact and creative effervescence in France, which many people know little about. It is the first major exhibition devoted to a turning point in French history, in the reigns of Charles…
Poles Hope Deadly Knights will Now Bring Some Good
KWIDZYN (AP).- The Teutonic Knights have long been reviled in Poland, where the Germanic warriors swept in during the Middle Ages and converted pagans to Christianity at the point of a sword. Many here see them as an early incarnation of a Germany tha…
Poles Hope Deadly Knights will Now Bring Some Good
KWIDZYN (AP).- The Teutonic Knights have long been reviled in Poland, where the Germanic warriors swept in during the Middle Ages and converted pagans to Christianity at the point of a sword. Many here see them as an early incarnation of a Germany tha…