In Israel, art has been increasingly recognized as a tool for social change, capable of addressing and mitigating the secular-religious divide. From visual arts and music to theater and literature ...

Republican Movement and Muktiwahini organized the event. Artists from Kolhapur, Mumbai, Pune, Allahabad and Satara displayed paintings at the exhibition. A painting by Pune painter Farukh Nadaf ...

Sacred images in particular could be recognized by a wide audience; but in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy the vast majority of secular paintings were based on a comparatively limited ...

“Art and religion are both trying to help us ... Some of their work on display in the church is overtly secular — even atheistic. Jeff Wagner’s pen-and-ink asks, “God, are you there?” ...

(Adele Bloch-Bauer II is at the Museum of Modern Art). "He was, by the early 20th ... Vienna and Switzerland in her lifetime — had made her into a secular icon. Staggs theorizes that was a ...

Though Botticelli is best known for his secular paintings of classical mythology in The Birth of Venus (1486) and Primavera (1482), which present women as figures of grace and sensuality ...

When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four ...

Seward promises to “use [Caravaggio’s] pictures to peer into his mind,” yet he devotes surprisingly little text to the content of the paintings, especially those with secular themes.