Daily Medieval

We're talking about Villard de Honnecourt, who traveled Europe and Hungary between 1225 and 1235 (at least), sketching along the way. As...

Who was Villard de Honnecourt? He mentions in his sketches that he had been to many lands, including spending several days in Hungary. He do...

I've mentioned  Villard de Honecourt  back in 2012; he is  so  worth another look. Anything we know about him is entirely incidental. Ar...

There is a 20th century art historian who has appeared in two posts because of his eye-opening contributions to the field in the 1940s: here...

The Fibonacci series, mentioned here , has been found to correlate to patterns found in nature. There is no evidence that Fibonacci himsel...