The hair-raising reality of the Middle Ages is a grisly ... CE and the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th century.

Chateau Laroche—known to locals as Loveland Castle—rises from the Ohio landscape like a fever dream, a stone fortress that would look more at home in the European countryside than the American Midwest ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...