Reflection on the engraving The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica honours the dedication of the Archbasilica of ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

The original statues of the Christus and the apostles were made of plaster, and are currently inside the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The completed marble Christus was placed inside the Church of ...

On All Souls Day, and every day, there is one visitor to purgatory that the souls there especially long to see.

In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...

Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

Discover how making Monty Python's Life of Brian led filmmaker Julian Doyle on a quest to unravel fact from fiction about the ...

King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the ...

Our yearly reminder for Christians neither to run from nor to leap toward death, but to learn the art of dying well.

Image Simone Martini’s gold-leaf “Christ Discovered in the Temple,” from “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350” at the Met.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times Pietro and ...

Body armor maker Ratnik Tactical is selling Warhammer 40,000-inspired purity seals for soldiers, blessed by priests in a ...