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 ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, the episode of the witch Circe is one of the most deliciously intriguing of the epic. She is often ...

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.

A Baroque masterpiece that beautifully captures the joy, wonder, and mystery of the Nativity.

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 ...

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 ...