Beyond its cultural and historical implications, the vase also stands as a narrative and visual triumph. It breathes new life ...

Wang rendered each character with exquisite detail and symbolic meaning. The bearded monk Fa Hai dominates the composition, wearing a five-Buddha crown and a crimson monastic robe fastened with ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in the hairy hides of animals like deer or boar to act […] ...

Weed, obviously. But also a ton of innovation, some surprising ingredients, a dose of hucksterism—and a tradition on the ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

To scholars, the early 18th-century religious artwork is a key ... “He became popular among monks,” Ioasaf Vasylkyv, the monastery’s 67-year-old, gray-bearded bishop, said, as we sipped ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

Images of Mary and Christ are plentiful, as are images of them sitting in a rose garden. Since most of the population from ...