After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization flickered in monasteries and on Europe’s fringes: Christian Byzantium, Moorish ...

Religion served art and art served religion throughout the Middle Ages. But in the later centuries, with rising prosperity, secular art, art which had nothing to do with God, was becoming ...

And the Renaissance gave us important art, literature, and really pretty ceilings. In contrast, the Middle Ages in Europe was all about the Christian church. Some historians have put forth the ...

Much material is drawn from the 19th century, when the Romantic movement created its own version of the Middle Ages in the art, illustration ... racial backgrounds, religious backgrounds, all ...