The West once promised freedom, justice and reason. But after centuries of global dominance, war crimes and broken ideals, its future hangs in the balance. As nationalism rises and China stakes its ...

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

Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant ...

The official photograph of the president’s second term has the gloss of his 1980s architecture, but its A.I.-like haze is ...

This tension came to the surface again after a high-profile firing in Washington, D.C. Former President Donald Trump ...

The White House revealed a new official portrait of President Donald Trump on Monday, inspiring social media users to ...

Raphael and Dürer struck up a long-distance friendship when they were at the peak of their popularity, living over 600 miles ...

The Vatican Library is the custodian of a major part of humanity’s literary heritage. That includes more than 80,000 ancient ...

The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

From the Pilgrims' Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St. Ursula that closes the "Caravaggio 2025" ...

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who ...

They include five Raphael frescoes and cover 1,500 years of papal politics and 500 years of art history ... of all papal portraits. It depicts the first Medici pope, the son of Lorenzo the ...