Consider the characters in the painting: the Virgin, baby Jesus, St. Margaret, St. Louis, two angels and a dragon. Although St. Louis is the French king Louis IX, he was revered among the ...

Maffeo Barberini lived up to the lofty expectations of his aristocratic parents by being elected pope in 1623 ... the National Gallery of Ancient Art. It was built during Urban VIII’s papacy ...

Mauro Pallotta, also known as Maupal, was so moved by the man, he began painting Pope Francis on the walls of Rome. “In 2014, I painted the first Pope Francis similar to Superman. But a Superman ...

“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. He’s right. The 1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in ...

A knight chases a dragon and a princess goes on a quest. Coins spill, ink splatters, the tablecloth falls off the easel and the painting has gone entirely rogue. Sponsor Message "A lack of sleep ...

Art offers me a way of trying to see and understand both the physical and spiritual aspects of the world. Perhaps that is one reason I was so moved by the presence of Pope Francis as head of the ...

Despite the painting’s high price tag, there is no consensus among experts about who painted the altarpiece, where it was commissioned or even what country the artist was from. Last exhibited in ...

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here... In a 'Still Life' painting nothing moves ...