Christian Art has announced the launch of the Faith Art Prize - a major international award celebrating contemporary art in ...

For decades, the interior of the Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption, a church in the town of Santa María Huiramangaro in Mexico, stood stark white, with blue accents. But the parish was not always ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use ...

A group of 1,000-year-old wall paintings have been discovered in the ruins of an ancient church in Sudan. Among the surviving images is a bust of the Christ Emmanuel directly in front of a standing ...

Do depictions of religious icons in art & architecture affect one’s experience with faith? Can depictions of religious icons in art & architecture have an impact on the deepness of one’s connection to ...

At the entrance to "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350," an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on view through Jan. 25, hangs a small Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child from ...

“Madonna and Child (‘Laudato No’)” by Nick Leeper (Photo: Courtesy of the author). “Les Grands Transparents” by Man Ray (Photo: Courtesy of the author). Founded in 2019 by Liana Marabini, the Biennale ...

Last Sunday was the feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. According to the Gospel of Matthew, John the Baptist is at first reluctant to perform the sacrament on the adult Jesus, saying he (John) is not ...

Josefa de Óbidos, “Child Jesus Salvator Mundi” (1680), oil on canvas (Collection Coimbra, Venerável Ordem Terceiraall images courtesy Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga) Born in Seville in 1630, de Óbidos ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore. By Holland Cotter In 1983, at Japan ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV's religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...