After a five-year restoration, Leonardo’s “Adoration of the Magi” divulges brushstrokes, colors, and images long hidden under dirt and darkened varnish. The unfinished painting, commissioned ...

Q: What is the History of Christian art showing the Virgin Mary suckling the Infant ... of representation has most certainly developed from depictions of the adoration of the Magi, as early as the ...

Each was signed “In Verehrung gewidmet”—dedicated in adoration—”Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920.” The vultures’ eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate ...

Image credit: "Adoration of the Magi," Gondarine sensul, Ethiopian, late seventeenth century. Baltimore, The Walters Gallery, Walters Manuscript 36.10, fol. 2r. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Challenging the ...

with works of art and objects from the Fitzwilliam’s own collection. These objects range from a 12th-century French ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

In the spring of 1849, the newly founded Smithsonian Institution purchased its first collection, a group of European prints and art books assembled by Vermont Congressman George Perkins Marsh. The ...

We are meant to continue to grow in our love and adoration of God. May we, like the shepherds, go to see this thing which has taken place, and glorify and praise God. May we, like the Magi ...

Archaeologists discovered a rock painting of an animal from at least 200 years ago in South Africa that may match with fossils found in the area. The art depicts a horned serpent that may be a now ...

So clearly it was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status. Modern politicians use political techniques invented by rulers of old, but instead of paint ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...

Italy’s most celebrated art gallery is housed in what was originally built as the Medici Whitehall – the governing dynasty’s administrative centre. Highlights include Gentile da Fabriano’s Adoration ...