Throughout the medieval period, artists and viewers prized a close ... reimagined and transformed into the beautiful parchment painting surviving today.

medieval artists developed their finely-honed skills through years of training and specialization in particular media. For viewers in the Middle Ages, the precious materials used in these works, such ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical ... of the library’s manuscripts were written on parchment, the specially prepared skin of a calf ...

But the test merely proved that the parchment was medieval, not the ink of the map itself. A forger would likely have used an old parchment to give his or her work an authentic air and could have ...

1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art ... In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and ...

Professor Netzer teaches courses on European medieval art of the first millennium and the history and ... and codicological analysis with new scientific technologies for analyzing pigment and ...

Image credits: ekaterina shishina Medieval books were made of parchment -- a writing material ... so a unicorn repeatedly ...

According to the show’s curator, Joan Molina Figueras, this is the first large-scale exhibition to examine how medieval Spanish art helped fuel ... richly decorated parchment pages from the ...

After years of painstaking work, Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon finished the illustrated manuscript in 1312 Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to ...

Now, when you're baking, you've probably used parchment paper to line a sheet tray, keeping those cookies from sticking to the pan and making cleanup a breeze. Which leads to the big question ...

Dear Heloise: Parchment paper often doesn’t lay flat on a cookie sheet. A friend of mine, who cooks a lot like me, told me to sprinkle a little water on the bottom of the pan and even out the paper.