Balancing life with the dragon was a delicate equilibrium between male and female forces. Under John of Patmos, dragons had become unambiguous symbols of evil, and they inhabited the medieval gospels ...

Since ancient times ... The shape-shifting nature of the medieval dragon only strengthened its association with the devil. The Romanesque art of the 11th and 12th centuries includes bipedal ...

Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback, wizards in flowing robes and long-necked, roaring dragons ... of medieval life and pop culture, presenting ancient objects ...

Today, medieval-style warriors and wizards are a ... For example, after an episode featuring dragons, the curators explored a bestiary, an illustrated book of animals, made around 1270 by an ...

During the Middle Ages, dragons ... from ancient Rome to "Game of Thrones" Over the past few years, Bruce, a historian at Fordham University, has developed wide-ranging expertise in how medieval ...

Cartographers used the beastly art to illustrate mysterious ... Whales feature prominently in medieval and Renaissance maps. Many sketches allude to an ancient story about sailors mistaking ...

That “busyness,” as well as the flat nature of the landscapes, “really has the kind of cadence of medieval art,” Grollemond tells the Los Angeles Times. Saint George and the Dragon (circa ...

bloody vignette framed by two roaring dragons. These digital images went not to a team of embroiderers, but to yU+co’s 3D division, led by art director James Robertson. It was Robertson’s ...