VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the ...

The works depict religious scenes from the lives of Jesus, Mary and various saints and significantly expand Getty’s medieval ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

Today huge, and sometimes forbidding, art museums hang the treasures of the Renaissance on their walls, there to be seen by several million Americans who each year visit Manhattan’s Metropolitan ...

By the fifth century, Christian art had spread from catacombs to many public spaces, with Mary and baby Jesus continuing as a central theme of Christian art, especially during the Middle Ages and the ...

The Langston Hughes play “Black Nativity” is a cherished cultural tradition to some and completely unknown to others. Don't miss out! Get our original, on-the-ground reports from the DFW area ...

Under Savonarola’s influence, Botticelli reoriented his practice from decorative to devout, which in turn inspired “Mystic Nativity.” Scholars discovered that the 12 angels at the base of ...

Human spirit at heart of the season. Christmas lives in great art but it’s also there in our earliest memories of carol singing and school nativity plays.

‘Black Nativity’ may be different each time you see it − and that’s exactly what the playwright had in mind. More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a ...

On December 7, Pope Francis attended the opening of Nativity of Bethlehem 2024, a nativity scene exhibition in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. One scene featured olive wood sculptures of Mary ...

Fast forward nearly 200 years to William Blake’s The Nativity in 1799. This painting closely aligns with the values of Romanticism, a period of art that flourished at the end of the 17th century.