When The Matrix premiered in 1999, no one had seen anything like it before: kung-fu blended with philosophy blended with technology blended with epic romance. The revolutionary first film grossed over ...

This sixth volume of the Getty's superb Guide to Imagery series does not disappoint, following a winning formula to satisfying results. Like its predecessors, the book lushly reproduces masterworks ...

Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls, dating probably to the1290s, is the oldest known mystical work written in French, and theonly surviving medieval text by a woman writer executed as a ...