To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre ... century door in Exeter cathedral that has a hole in it for cats to come and go.” Today, the account has over 600,000 followers.

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 ...

Web Gallery of Art (Public Domain) It is commonplace to see images of cats in iconography of feasts and other domestic spaces, which appears to reflect their status as a pet in the medieval household.

Since the far-off times of Ancient Egypt, women and cats have been aligned in art and culture ... is that his rhetoric is rooted in misplaced medieval hysteria about our furry friends.

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 ...

Cats in medieval times had a bad reputation - these furry friends were seen as linked to paganism and witchcraft, which was frowned upon in society. Now, researchers have used fifth to 15th ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic ... Heartened by the overwhelming response of Medieval cat lovers of Instagram, Venditti hopes to give the people what they ...

A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell ... “A lot of it is about showing characters, people or creatures in medieval art that jump out of the page and have their own personality ...