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

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 ...

ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

But over his nearly 25-year career, one painting rises above the rest. “I’ve done a lot of things since then that I’m really proud of as an artist, and the pope cover is still the one where ...

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 ...