Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — shows how she was portrayed by artists in the Middle Ages, before ...

“Villagers on Their Way to Church” by Simon Bening is featured in “The Manuscripts Club” by Christopher de Hamel. (Getty Museum) Review by Michael Dirda “The Book of Kells,” “The ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

Anyone who has peered over the soft vellum pages of an illuminated manuscript ... titled “Graphic Design in the Middle Ages,” brings together manuscripts from different cultural traditions ...

At around 232 pages, the book bore no indication of its authors and lacked the luster — and the metal leaf — seen in many manuscripts from the “illuminated” age ... Is the tome a true artifact of the ...

On display are religious objects, such as mosque lamps, designed to incorporate light into worship, illuminated manuscripts ... t stop at the end of the Middle Ages: It incorporates contemporary ...

Our era may be wildly different from the Middle Ages — after all ... This quirky RPG is formatted like the pages of an illuminated manuscript, with the artist protagonist, Andreas, finding ...

The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as ... snails and knights were so popular throughout the middle ages. One theory is that these doodles added humour to ...