the history of art

The three most powerful fighting giants: Riel, Birkhilt and Rakhine, Runkelstein Castle, 1395 (Photo: Stiftung Bozner Schlösser/ Fondazione Castelli di Bolzano)

About giants and civilians

Designing figures of heroes as giants in Gothic art marked the strengthening of urban power, the weakening of religion and the beginning of social mobility