Experts have identified the painting as the earliest known version of Jacob Jordaens' The Holy Family (1617–18). Courtesy of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Known for his vivid use of ...

A Kennett Square, Chester County artist got the commission and as Pat Ciarrocchi has learned, his art is also his mission ... to create the Icon of the Holy Family for the World Meeting of ...

It is impossible to paint the Holy Family realistically. We do not know what they looked like. Their contemporaries left us no record of their appearance, and the four great theologians who wrote ...