An art handler holds Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Now’s the Time” (1985) during a 2023 press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City. The artwork sold for $28.6 million.

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...

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On launch, Weird Medieval Guys joined a cadre of social media posts and dedicated accounts, such as @medievalcats, that were surfacing art from the Medieval margins (see: penis nun).

“A lot of the art being made (in the Medieval era) was people drawing on things from their life and experiences… that were part of popular culture,” Swarthout said in a phone call with CNN.