A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

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ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...

Caravaggio’s enormous popularity today may seem surprising, considering how out of sympathy his work and even his character ...

On a recent assignment to Milan, Italy, Sister Tracy Y. Browning, second counselor in the Primary general presidency, viewed Leonardo da Vinci’s masterful mural of the “Last Supper” painted on a wall ...

And yet, the art created in New York in the 1980s, in all its messy duality of saints and sinners, has endured over the past ...

Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing ...

the formality of religious art. So we’re focusing on the humanity that actually was there. The Last Supper is the best example because it’s a very long section in the Bible, and there’s a ...

In 1993, Saint Louis University opened a new initiative that it touted as the first of its kind—in its words, “the first museum to bring an interfaith focus to contemporary art.” The Museum of ...

Inscriptions deciphered at the traditional Last Supper site reveal it ... making it a rare material trace of pre-modern female pilgrimage. 'Unlike their Christian counterparts, which were ...

Christian paintings have been thriving as an art genre since the Middle Ages ... was fascinated by the science of colors. In The Last Supper, Leonardo does break the rules. Judas is not wearing yellow ...