Rick Steves' Europe. Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the Roman Empire. Season 12 Episode 1204 | 28m 23s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic ...

Art Bites 173: Baroque Art, the Catholic Church, and the Virgin Mary. Video has Closed Captions CC. Clip | 3m 42s | Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered a striking analogy: The medieval church, he wrote in 1970, was “a ...