The visual arts prospered during Middles Ages, which created its own aesthetic values.
c. 330 - 1300 C.E.
This was a period that heralded the formation and rise of universities, the establishment of the rule of law, numerous periods of ecclesiastical reform and the birth of the tourism industry. Many works of medieval literature, such as the Canterbury Tales, the Divine Comedy, and The Song of Roland, are widely read and studied today.
By Dr. Nancy Ross
The dark ages?
So much of what the average person knows, or thinks they know, about the Middle Ages comes from film and tv. When I polled a group of well-educated friends on Facebook, they told me that the word “medieval” called to mind Monty Python and the Holy...
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By Dr. Nancy Ross
An illusion of reality
Classical art, or the art of ancient Greece and Rome, sought to create a convincing illusion for the viewer. Artists sculpting the images of gods and goddesses tried to make their statues appear like an idealized human figure. Some of these...
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By The British Museum
Kalends, nones, ides—the medieval month took its three fixed points from ancient Rome. But what about red days?
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