Then, beginning in August of 2020, the Museum will present the first dedicated exhibition of the collection in North America, providing new insights into this medieval visual culture and displaying ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney meet their historic European predecessors at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles through September 11. Unknown German, Three Horsemen in Armor from the ...

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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 ...

If you were to stack a copy of every romance novel set in the medieval world on top of one another, the pile would reach as high as the spires of the Cologne Cathedral. That’s to say the genre is a ...

From Harry Potter to Game of Thrones, pop culture is saturated with medieval imagery. Now, a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages,” explores this connection by ...