Drawing Jesus can be a deeply moving and spiritual experience for artists of all levels. Whether you seek to depict his ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

After Parson tried out five sketches of Jesus that were not quite right ... of a 20-year-old coming up to a display of his painting of a small child playing with the Savior’s hands (“His ...

Early Christian texts reveal how the birth of Christ reflected ideas of the day − in some illustrations, midwives helped the ...

The Met Museum made headlines 20 years ago when it paid an eye-watering sum for a very small painting by Duccio di ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

The Jewish scholar A. J. Levine suggests to preachers that the parables are best understood through an Old Testament lens ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

Featured in the work is an unusual image added to the iconic Madonna and Child painting. In it, the mother of Jesus is portrayed as the Kannon bodhisattva, a Buddhist deity. Tetsujo Suda ...

children, a vine or flock; the judgment was represented as a harvest or a reckoning; and God's reign as a feast or wedding. Jesus' audience would immediately have understood these tropes.

"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is more than just a pre-history of the Italian ...

A superhero version of Jesus and a kaleidoscope love story were at the heart of the NFMLA InFocus: Puglia Cinema Program in ...