I have been thinking a lot about the power of rituals to shape and add meaning to our lives. Rituals can be helpful in the ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

The painting is stirring more interest than almost any other National Gallery exhibition in recent years. Yet confusion and division are rife over the “meaning” of Dali’s effort.

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 ...