The Museum of Art recently opened a brand new religious exhibit titled “Earthbound and Heavenward: The Sacred Art of ...

Anyone who has looked even casually at books of art history surely has noticed how the religious paintings and sculptures that flowed strongly through past centuries slow to a trickle in our period. A ...

(Marietta, Georgia-AP) December 29, 2005 - At 11,000 square feet and taking up 50 panels, the "Life of Christ" depicts the life and ascension of Jesus. It was listed in the 1986 edition of Guinness ...

To be honest, I never gave halos much thought. I knew what they represented in general, but I didn't pay much attention to ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

Art has always pushed boundaries, but some works cross lines so boldly that they spark outrage, protests, and even legal ...

On Nov. 1, 1512, Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti unveils his painting of the 5,800-square-foot Sistine Chapel ceiling after four years of work. Michelangelo began painting the ceiling of ...

For three decades, a mysterious oil painting found in a junk store in tiny Summer Shade, Kentucky, hung in the Connecticut home of Gary Pitcock. Pitcock, a historian and collector originally from ...

Every time the 26-foot truck hit a pothole, Tim Tomes became increasingly aware of the 200-year-old treasure trailing behind him. The jarringly large painting — 8-feet-by-10-feet — had been gingerly ...