How a rarely-seen drawing of the Three Graces by Raphael reveals the era's ideas about nudity, modesty, shame – and the ...

Scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring “Jesus is God,” claiming that this 1,800-year-old engraving could change our understanding of Christianity.

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

Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in new PBS documentary.

Shadow Paintings" now on view at the Albertina, Vienna, presents the Romanian artist's visions of Schiele's lost masterworks ...

Reflection on the Basilicas Today's feast commemorates the dedication of two of the most significant basilicas in Rome, ...

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

The National Gallery's "Paris 1874" exhibit and the Museum of the Bible's first public viewing of the Megiddo Mosaic both ...

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.

NEW YORK (AP) — Judith Jamison, transcendent dancer and artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, dies at 81. Urban explorers have given a glimpse inside an empty Swindon supermarket ...

Church of England clergy have declared that “God is not a white man” and are working to make images of Jesus more diverse.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives ... attributed to Gentile da Fabriano and his students, The Seven Ages of Man, painted in 1412 across one wall of a corridor at the Palazzo Trinci in ...