Mrs. Worne, who happens to be a former art teacher, told English media nothing could hold her back from exclaiming "Jesus!" ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

The 19th-century American galleries have gone dark at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, scheduled for a grand reopening early next year. In the meantime, works by that century’s brashest master, the ...

The cross, which is about 10ft (3m) tall, depicts the crucifixion of Jesus and possibly the Virgin Mary and his disciple John, they said. Mrs Worne, a former art teacher, said: "We didn't expect ...

Pontius Pilate – the Roman governor of Judaea and the man who ordered the crucifixion – was ordered home in disgrace. By executing Jesus, the Romans had kick-started a brand new religion that ...

All the marks of violence on the skeleton resulted directly or indirectly from crucifixion ... to the customary portrayal in paintings and biographies,' Jesus had his arms pierced and not his ...

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion, signifying a symbolic ... have been used to cleanse workers before they operated an oil ...