The basilica, consecrated on Nov. 18, 1626, is a place of beauty and transcendence, prayer and worship. It is a place made ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

St. Paul is blunt about this fact: Unless Jesus is risen from the dead, “your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). Unless ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

Californian twentysomething Ambika Mathur went from lying on her couch watching Netflix to living out an Italian dream.

Marc Ellerby, the Carl Barks of Rick And Morty, returns to Oni Press' new series, Ricklemania, writing and drawing the ...

The history of art is full of pieces inspired by religion. This makes sense of course, since religion was an integral part of ...

The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a myth.

But the spirit of God was there. The arrow of God, the hand of God, delivered me. “I am grateful to the men of God that stood in the gap. I am grateful to those who believed that with God ...

The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints ...