Hans Holbein the Elder (German, ca. 1465–1524); Portrait of the Architect Mathes (Matthäus) Roriczer ca. 1490–93; silverpoint on gray-white prepared paper, later partially covered with gray body color ...
A half-man, half-bird beast playing a flute. A cat’s head popping out of a snail shell. A woman barfing up a tiny demon. These are just some of the otherworldly critters that scribes in the Middle ...
To today’s audiences, medieval art can look outright bizarre. Before the stylistic shifts that defined the Renaissance, medieval illustrations often featured flat, unrealistic figures and fantastical ...