As I argue in my recent book Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice , the medieval city of Venice provides a ... a coup and the public execution of a doge in 1355), as non-noble ...

Medieval art is full of unicorns. One famous example is the series of tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn, which now hang in the Musée Cluny in Paris. And the artworks have an unexpected ...

Bianca Frölich, an art and antiques specialist at Frölich Kunst & Antiek, says little survives from the period the ring was created in the Low Countries. “Where the economic wind is blowing is ...