A lost masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was recently rediscovered and is now on display in what experts are calling “one of the greatest discoveries in the history of art.” Titled ...

The central and tallest figure in the Dark Church’s Anastasis painting is Christ, identified by his cruciform halo, his name in the traditional two-letter (medieval) Greek abbreviations (IC XC), and ...

An 18th century painting of Saint Francis of Assisi has been returned to a church in Teotihuacán nearly 25 years after being ...

France's culture ministry blocked the export of a rare painting by Italian master Cimabue, which was found hanging in an elderly woman's kitchen, as the country tries to raise the funds to buy the ...

Under the Roman School, it has been observed that Polidoro Caldara di Caravaggio, a pupil of Raphael, went to Naples, in 1527, when Rome was sacked and pillaged by the troops of Constable Bourgon. One ...

Our popular imagining of Christ as a woodworker obscures a richer story. When John Everett Millais began the painting that would launch his career as one of 19th-century England’s most prominent ...

St. Joseph does not have any words recorded in sacred Scripture, but the published meditations of an 18th-century Italian nun offer the chance to imagine the details of the Holy Family’s daily life as ...