Last month, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the return of one of Spain’s great medieval treasures, the Sijena Murals, to their original monastery after nearly a century at the National Art Museum of ...
Everyone who seems to know Spain almost exclusively thinks of Barcelona and its Gaudí-built wonders, Madrid for the leafy boulevards lined with Belle époque buildings, and Malaga for the golden-sand ...
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First constructed more than 200 years ago, Franc Vila’s manor house in Pego, Spain, is an irreplaceable find. Graced with palms, terraces and two medieval towers, the six-bedroom, six-bathroom, ...
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Olivia Swarthout has brought medieval art to the masses (460K Twitter followers and counting) but she’s not formally trained in medieval history or art. A self-described “proprietress of weird ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...
Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons fill the Getty Center’s galleries this summer. A new exhibition plumbs ...