In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Henry Ossawa Tanner painted "The Good Shepherd" ...

The exhibition "Museum of the Russian Icons" is now open at the Palazzo Pitti. Installation view of “The Museum of Russian Icons" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Courtesy of the Uffizi ...

ABSTRACT The main focus of interest in the paper is the attitude of Western and Eastern stems of Christianity towards religious painting with reference to the problem of equality of word and image as ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - Rembrandt, the greatest painter of his century — or, some would say, of any century — had a lot of personal and financial troubles in his later years, the 1650s and 1660s. The National ...

What the Gallery Says: “The purpose of this project is to integrate into original paintings from the 17th and 18th Century fictitious elements and characters taken from the popular culture of our ...

Canterbury, England, April 1 (ENInews)--A self-effacing multi-millionaire, Jonathan Ruffer, 59, has become a cultural icon here after buying a series of 17th century religious paintings from the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Zulfiqar Mosque’s minaret rises over Sadr City, curving at the top ...

Over 9 pounds of methamphetamine were found concealed in religious paintings shipped to Cincinnati from Mexico, officials said. The Customs and Border Protection canine team in Cincinnati intercepted ...

Entering the Narga Selassie church in northwest Ethiopia is a bit jarring. The circular stone church, built in the mid-1700s, resembles the spare, thatched-roof homes many Ethiopians inhabit even ...