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 ...

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.

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 ...

2/3 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of science getting out of control.