The idea is to make tangible again the spiritual scope of the vine: its biblical roots, its monastic cultivation, and its ...

Nestled in a rocky depression above the turquoise waters of the Aliakmonas River in northwest Greece lies a remarkable ...

Three miles north of the Inner Harbor, by Johns Hopkins University’s main campus, is the Baltimore Museum of Art, home of the ...

In 2006 Dunietz first encountered the work of Ethiopian composer and pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, and was so enamoured by them that she travelled to find the composer in a Jerusalem monastery ...

Reaching the monastery, which is 7,000ft above sea level and clings to a mountainside, was no mean task. Lester Capon, a British bookbinder normally based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, spent ...

The practice of painting and sculpture in Ethiopia is an ancient tradition that dates back to the Axumite civilization, ... Historical records indicate that the painting of Saint Mary at ...

Rather than continuing her studies, however, Tsegué-Maryam devoted herself to her faith, moving to a mountain-top monastery in Ethiopia and becoming a nun, completely abandoning her musical life. In ...

In 1915, Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ with golden hair and fair skin. Vigeland was well aware of a ...

Above: Jatenipat “JKboy” Ketpradit surrounded by Mongolian Tsam masks. Top: A Mongolian master mask maker and his disciples. The book contains hundreds of arrestingly beautiful photographs which ...

The easy-to-navigate PEMM website includes over 2 million pieces of painstakingly collected data documenting the development of these Marian stories, from the very beginning, to their flourishing in ...