Reflection on the painting Yesterday, we celebrated the feast of ... Simon Vouet (1590-1649) portrays her here holding her traditional attribute, a lamb (agnus in Latin), symbolising both her name and ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

And behind one of the last sheets of fiberboard was a painting of Jesus. The painting - a 10ft (3m) tall cross - depicts the crucifixion of Jesus and possibly the Virgin Mary and his disciple John.

A couple who found a large painting of Jesus in a Cornish barn are looking for help to find out more information about the person who painted it. Sarah Worne and her husband bought the plot of ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

Just a little moment of unease. Frankly, it’s hard to shush those quiet biases that make a person want to categorize all art into “real art” and “other,” as if I have somehow earned the ...

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...