The painting shows the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and a young John the Baptist, and was thought to be based on Virgin Mary, Infant Christ, and St. John the Baptist (ca. 1490), a painting whose ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released an edited version of a 17th-century Italian painting to remove cleavage from the Virgin Mary.

Renaissance Italian painters attempted to capture the perfect love between Mary and baby Jesus, as in Vincenzo Catena’s c. 1510 "Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Peter" on the ...

The painting of Mary and baby Jesus became a favorite of museum patrons, showing up in multiple newspaper accounts during the Christmas season in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

The Virgin Mary and Jesus inspired other forms of art and were featured in Henan opera. To localize the nativity scene for the Chinese people, the song “Jesus Baby” described the birth of Jesus in the ...

Earlier this year, more than 22,000 people signed a petition protesting what they saw as a “homoerotic” painting of Jesus commissioned to celebrate Easter in the Spanish city of Seville.

The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s what biblical scholars say.