Basically, on one side, there is the Society of Jesus, which opposes returning a large 18th-century painting to its original location, which has always belonged (and is still owned by) the ...

with one hand pulling a soul from the mouth of hell and the other confidently cradling the baby Jesus. She is Our Lady of the Light, a luminescent painting of the Virgin Mary by 18th century ...

Taken at “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800,” an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it depicts a statue of Madonna with Child in which ...