A massive painting of Jesus on display in the US Merchant Marine Academy has been covered by a curtain after objections that a sectarian symbol should not hang in a room used for mandatory activities.

George Washington owned two pieces of religious art. One is currently up for auction at Alexandria’s Potomack Company: an 18th century pastel rendering of St. John the Evangelist.. Washington’s ...

There’s Caravaggio’s first religious painting, St. Francis of Assisi, who’s depicted in an angel’s arms while one of his early companions, Brother Leo, is barely visible in the surrounding ...

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 ...

Painters dab a variety of materials onto their canvases. Oil paint. Pastel paint. Watercolor paint. But milk paint? “The ...

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Voluntary torture--with splints through his flesh, and his body hanging to a pole--with his medicine bag in his hand, he looks at the sun from its rising to its setting. [P. 32; exhibited under ...

A sweeping show at the Met focuses on the Tuscan city’s pivotal role in Renaissance art, where painters such as Duccio and Simone Martini depicted religious scenes in vibrant detail and with ...