Just in time for the holiday season, a new exhibit in D.C. takes a look at depictions of the Virgin Mary, one of the most popular female ... women in Western art, the museum contends.

Musee du Louvre, or the Louvre museum as we know it, is one of the most ... painting is Jesus. The Virgin of the Rocks is another masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting shows Virgin Mary ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate ... the face of the Virgin Mary is now unrecognizable — causing outrage in the Spanish art conservation community and beyond. “I don’t think this ...

It's the size of a barn door, weighs more than an elephant, and is one of the most famous and coveted paintings ... Adam and Eve, the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and a crowned Christ in detail ...

The painting at the heart of this story isn’t an original, like the Spanish “Monkey Jesus” fresco that a churchgoer with no qualifications just decided to paint over (below). But a copy of a ...

ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...