A famous 15th-century altarpiece has been restored in Belgium, and people are freaked out by the artist's original image of a human-faced Jesus sheep. Skip to main content.

On this day in 1497, a Dominican friar named Girolama Savonarola had a bonfire. What was lost? It was the 15th century, so it’s hard to know exactly, but “artworks, books, cosmetics, dresses ...

In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily on the minds of the people. Plagues were rampant. The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople, had fallen to the Turks.