with one hand pulling a soul from the mouth of hell and the other confidently cradling the baby Jesus. She is Our Lady of the Light, a luminescent painting of the Virgin Mary by 18th century ...

Taken at “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800,” an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it depicts a statue of Madonna with Child in which ...

Basically, on one side, there is the Society of Jesus, which opposes returning a large 18th-century painting to its original location, which has always belonged (and is still owned by) the ...

Francis Wood, 96, admires the John Opie painting “The Schoolmistress,” which was stolen from his parents’ Newark, N.J., home in 1969 and recently returned to him. (FBI) An 18th-century ...

The family had found a painting in his estate and wanted to know what it was worth. “When I saw it, it certainly appeared to be an 18th century painting,” Stauffer said. “It was a well-done painting.” ...