READING, Pa. – A painting that hung almost unnoticed for nearly 70 years in a dark corridor of a Jesuit center has been authenticated as a rare and valuable work by Tintoretto, a 16th-century ...

has been making that case—and has already singled out a proto-Renaissance masterpiece by Duccio as a possible candidate to leave the museum. Encountering religious art in a church can provide ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s ...

Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts” continues through Jan. 7. No paywalls here. Thanks to you. As an independent nonprofit, RNS believes everyone should have access to coverage of religion that ...