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A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van ...

The enlightenment that swept aside medieval Europe's dusty faith and folklore in favor of bright modernity and reason had an unintended side effect: it gave rise to Gothic art and literature, and its ...

The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with glorious stained-glass windows. The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with colorful light shining through glorious ...

Gothic Monticello: Thomas Jefferson's garden narratives -- 'Banditti Mania': the gothic haunting of Washington Allston -- 'Arranging the trap doors': the gothic revival castles of Alexander Jackson ...

We see better when we recognize and can name (at least for our own purposes) the things we see. If you can tell a delphinium from a daylily, or a Titian from a Rubens, or a Honda Civic from a Lotus ...

On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany’s greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Gothic art and architecture is usually associated with soaring vertical lines — church naves and belltowers, tall, pointed arches, sculptures of saints with long, slender bodies. The ...