Maria Laach Abbey After the fall of the ancient Roman Empire, medieval art in Europe underwent its own unique evolution. The ...

The term "Gothic" was actually derogatory when it was coined during the Renaissance. By “Gothic,” historians refer to the second of the two major continental eras that flourished in Western and ...

There is a peculiar type of American darkness, and it is one suffused with light. Bright sunshine masks a whited-out evil, smiling faces conceal the weight of sadness. It is different from the ...

Forget trenchcoats and black eyeliner. Gothic art has a rich history beyond the cliches. Faye Dowling’s The Book of Black tells its story – and introduces a new generation of devotees, from artists ...

Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter, pictured in ...

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 ...

The great thing about Graham-Dixon’s exuberantly hammed-up delivery is that it is entirely in keeping with the subject. Throughout the series so far, he has switched between razor-sharp insight and ...