The Art Institute of Chicago unveils new galleries of medieval and Renaissance art. This week, the Art Institute of Chicago unveiled new galleries of medieval and Renaissance art – including the ...

The exhibition hopes to dispel the contemporary myths and stereotypes seen in Hollywood films of the "medieval ... prominent role armor played in early-modern society, art and culture ...

But there is another reason why medieval women’s armor is such a tricky thing to predict: according to the folks behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Arms and Armory collection, when it ...

One example: The foot portion of medieval armor (the sabaton) “imitated the pointed shape of a fifteenth-century shoe,” the catalog states. Armor especially rose to the level of art when ...

But, according to art historian Matthias Goll, much of this vision is a myth. “It’s an old fairy tale that medieval armor was incredibly heavy,” he says. It was, in fact, relatively light ...

Nedilska also says she's often inspired by the surreal quality of medieval art, especially the illustrations in manuscripts. The pictures feel familiar to her, but also deeply strange ...

The glittering armor worn by medieval European knights was originally ... According to an essay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, plate armor was first used in Europe in the 13th century and ...

Knights were the legendary "superheroes" of their time, and that reputation was strengthened if not stretched by popular romance literature in the Medieval ... art and had an eye for artistic armor.

But even if knights' encounters with firearms were uncommon, medieval armor may have offered some protection against a bullet. "The Late Medieval-Early Modern Era, from around 1380 to about 1600 ...

Up above, "Tamara de Lempicka" puts on a Ritz and a different kind of fashion show. With more than 90 works on view, the first major U.S. retrospective of this Art Deco siren celebrates her ...