Chris Ofili’s 1996 painting “The Holy Virgin Mary” created a stink when it showed in New York in 1999—then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was among the protesters of the elephant dung-encrusted ...

A previously unknown Sandro Botticelli painting was discovered using scientific analysis at Saint Félix church in the French town of Champigny-en-Beauce, Artnet News reports. The work was long ...

{embed_code} The visage of the Virgin Mary was badly warped in two restoration attempts made on artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's painting "The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful GENAZZANO, Italy -- Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking ...