There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly ... like one small depiction of a cat churning butter. “You can look at it and imagine that it was just as funny and just as cute back ...

Since then the small, carnivorous mammals have played a major part in religion, folklore, art, and community health across the world. However, in 13th-century Western Europe, cats became ...

A self-described “proprietress of weird medieval guys,” she shares little 15th-century snail cats, gun-carrying demons, and other oddly charming scenes from centuries-old art along with her ...

From these (often very funny) portrayals, we can learn a lot about medieval attitudes towards cats – not least that they were a central fixture of daily medieval life. In the middle ages ...

But just because the felines were depicted frequently in medieval art and design doesn’t mean ... refer to other artists’ images of the big cats. Lions had pride of place for a reason.

Elina Gertsman calls the exhibit “small, but mighty.” Some items are so intricate and ornate they require viewing through a magnifying glass to capture detail. But make no mistake, the impact of ...

Italian art still dominates medieval and Renaissance scholarship ... and an impressive set of 15th-century terracotta apostles (Cat. 114), to pick out only a few. BUILDING a private collection is a ...