Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...

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 ...

Pope Francis’ image seemed to be everywhere ... s latest eruption so rare 200-year-old condom decorated with erotic art goes on display in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Scientists say a record ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...