CLEVELAND, Ohio – Things really haven’t changed that much since the Middle Ages, have they? We’ve got plenty to fear in the 21st century, just like the artists and illuminators who created the ...
From griffins and giants to demons and dragons, monsters have enthralled people throughout time. In medieval art and literature, these fanciful creatures give form to fears, curiosities, and fantasies ...
As the Cleveland Museum of Art’s director of interpretation, Jennifer DePrizio often is tasked with working with curators and scholars on artifacts with the simple idea of establishing how, say, ...
One of the classic images of a sea monster on a map: a giant sea-serpent attacks a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. WASHINGTON — ...
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 ...
While monsters today tend to play a one-dimensional role in our culture (such as the fantastically spooky or as antagonists in works of fiction), they were ubiquitous and multifunctional in the Middle ...
What is the story behind the sea monsters seen on so many early European maps? Their first appearance can be traced back to 10th century mappaemundi and continue through the end of the 1500s. They are ...
Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...
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 ...
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