Whether it says more—whether Dali as an artist has one foot securely in heaven, and whether his painting may be respected as authentic Christian art—is one of the controversies of the day.

A popular theme in Christian religious art, the Passion symbolizes the belief that the Son of God sacrificed himself to absolve the sins of all mankind. The title of the exhibition borrows from ...

So controversial, in fact, that the work was vandalized not once but twice while on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and ... Surrealism in favor of religious iconography, he was fiercely ...

This image makes it easy to see his work as standing apart from the stream of art history ... Dalí’s images of religious scenes step away from his irreverent and sometimes grotesque style ...