In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They include five Raphael frescoes and cover 1,500 years of papal politics and 500 years of art history. Raphael's Pope Leo X and cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de Rossi (1518-20 ...

(The Conversation) — The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s painting. (The Conversation) — Pope Francis ...

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 ...

As people around the world gather to honor Pope Francis, St. John's University ... students gathered outside the church to express their grief through art, each painting a tile to create a mosaic ...

Pope Francis’ image seemed to be everywhere ... A controversial flag invited art gallery visitors to ‘please walk on me.’ It lasted 19 days At least 111 people dead after floods submerge ...