Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first European-trained artists to depict the landscapes of Dutch Brazil ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Or the holiest of relics, the burial shroud of Jesus? The question seemed to have ... coatings in 1983 after a similar coating led two art connoisseurs to incorrectly date a Mayan jade carving ...

The Shroud of Turin is an ancient ... Dr Warren thinks the best representations of how Jesus might have looked come from the Egyptian mummy portraits. These paintings were made of men who died ...

It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon ... He also signs a painting with the Christian ichthus symbol, or “Jesus fish.” One critic compares him to a televangelist, and that seems ...

A replica of the famous Shroud of Turin is on display at a newly inaugurated museum in Quiapo, Manila, coinciding with the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus. According to CBCP News, the 4.4-meter-long ...

Scientists in Italy have shared new evidence that appears to confirm the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, potentially proving the fact that Jesus Christ was wrapped in it after his crucifixion.

Now St. Thomas Aquinas, the intellectual and spiritual ... Those who “venerate” a relic – whether it’s a shroud, a bone fragment, or a vial of blood – spend respectful time in its ...

As far back as the 14th century, Pope Clement VII admitted it was ‘a painting or panel made to represent or imitate the shroud’ rather than an object physically touched by Jesus. But in the ...

The Shroud of Turin, a centuries-old linen cloth that many believe was used to wrap Jesus’ body after crucifixion, is unlikely to be from Biblical times, hi-tech new research asserts. “I think ...

THE Shroud of Turin mystery continues as a bombshell study rules out the theory that the artefact was used as Jesus' burial cloth ... in fact a work of Christian art, which managed to convey ...