Pre-publication title: The heroic age of Gothic invention.

The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First

Boxwood prayer beads, rosaries and miniature altarpieces made in Northern Europe during the early 1500s demonstrate the limitless potential of human artistic pr

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Roma

"Groundbreaking research on sixteenth-century miniature boxwood carvings in the Thomson Collection of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Morgan