A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Dr Anderson provided expertise on medieval Islamic history, art, architecture, archaeology and civilisation to Ubisoft’s in-house history team, and contributed to a new educational feature ...

The situation is not helped by making accusations against a faculty member who is simply trying to share and teach the history of Islamic art with students.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Eclipses have fascinated people since the earliest days of recorded history. These rare astronomical events have helped explain the world around us—from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Islamic ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...

The craft workshops of Cairo tell a story going back to the glory days of medieval Islamic art — a side to the capital easy to overlook with the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum opening on the ...

Hamline University has terminated professor Erika Lopez Prater's contract after she showed a class devotional Islamic art depicting Muhammad.

An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on Display At the oldest public art museum in the United States, miniatures, glassware and other intricately created works transport ...

Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Professor Bloom teaches courses on the history of Islamic art and architecture. He also offers undergraduate seminars on such ...