A mysterious medieval society surfaces anew. Las Gobas, a small community in northern Spain, survived invasions and ...

Black Narcissus is such a visually arresting work of art that it is worth appreciating on a purely ... particularly with its strong feminist slant on the traditional Christian doctrine.

A stunning bronze sword has been discovered in Egypt. The weapon featured a hieroglyphic symbol of a powerful pharaoh who ...

From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that has thrived through the centuries to be instantly recognizable ...

Contrary to what you might expect if you’ve come across tradwife TikTok, Christianity was once very queer. In fact, non-heterosexual men fundamentally influenced public religious life in the medieval ...

At the same time, people “outside Christendom” are still humans made in the image of God and create beautiful and good things all over the world every day—often in spite of their worldview and values ...

We've seen the words in movies, books, art, and even anime, but what are the seven deadly sins? And who came up with the list ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has opened a show that demonstrates what a modern exhibition dedicated to Africa should look like.

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have ...

The Spanish Donkey, also called the “chevalet” or simply the “wooden horse,” was one of the cruelest of the medieval torture devices. Thought to have emerged during the Holy Inquisition in ...

Wandering the streets of Zürich allows you to marvel at an extraordinary range of public art. It starts in the Middle Ages, with carved drinking fountains; continues with 19th- and 20th-century ...

An archaeological study of an isolated Christian community in Spain shines a light on the ... with peoples of North African and Middle Eastern ancestry compared to other medieval inhabitants of the ...