When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

However, there is another tradition that many Christians follow – that of tattooing. Historically, Easter was an important time for tattoos among some Christian groups. Today, Christian tattooing ...

It features Mary with her hands up to symbolise the “Don’t shoot” signal that Brown is believed to have made as he faced the officer’s gun. Where Our Lady, Mother of Ferguson’s womb should be, there ...

A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting in ...

The Vatican Museums announced an exhibit March 17 showcasing a newly restored painting of the deposition of Christ, now definitively attributed to Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna, in a special ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...

Inside, centered on an orange wall, is a 6-by-3-foot painting of the Hindu god Krishna in the form of Shrinathji, a 7-year-old child. The blue-skinned figure, draped in necklaces and garlands ...

The exhibition 3-D: Focus on the Figure open from December 18 at the Flint Institute of Arts and continues through January 30, 2011.