Featuring 18,000 plants and works by three contemporary artists, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden celebrates the Dutch painter's love of nature ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small ... founding father of art history, Giorgio Vasari ...

The composer Olivier Messiaen famously introduced blackbirds and nightingales into his music. It is both baffling and bewitching ...

In 1212, he helped establish a second order for women, called the Poor Ladies of San Damiano, later known as the Poor Clares, led by St Clare of Assisi. In 1224, while on retreat at Mount La Verna ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi ... a turning point in Western art. Their realism and careful ...

And St. Clare — dedicated to Clare of Assisi — was one of them ... a contemporary Christian artist on Friday, June 20, and a Centennial Gala at the Historic Old Bermuda Inn Rossville in ...

The bishop of Assisi, author of a book on the links between Carlo, Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi - one of the first followers of Francis - said he hoped the canonisation would attract a “new ...

Provided The Order of St. Clare was founded in 1212 in Assisi, Italy, by St. Clare of Assisi, a young woman who had heard St. Francis preach faith and “evangelistic poverty.” Today ...