In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

Now, an exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, examines how they looked to medieval art for inspiration. “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light” at the Ateneum Art Museum places medieval and ...

Ritual in the medieval church was all-important leading ... Jerusalem itself – this was the aim and essence of sacred Gothic art and architecture. The sequence on the magical beauty of stained ...

The word Gothic came back with a different meaning in the Renaissance. It was used to describe medieval culture, particularly art and architecture. People in the Middle Ages had not called their ...

Participants discussed ways in which Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown together, would best exemplify this trend.