The painting, featuring Jesus with his arms outstretched over a lifeboat packed with sailors lost at sea, turned into a point of tension for non-Christian students and staff.

The debate over the color of Jesus’ skin is one of the oldest running arguments in religion. But this Easter, the question is a serious one — for several reasons.

The painting in a key room in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was as striking as it was massive: Jesus, his arms outstretched, hovered over a lifeboat packed with grateful sailors, lost at sea.

JTA — The painting in a key room in the US Merchant Marine Academy was as striking as it was massive: Jesus, his arms outstretched, hovered over a lifeboat packed with grateful sailors, lost at sea.

The painting depicts Jesus with His arms outstretched in front of a lifeboat of merchant seamen lost at sea during World War II and has hung in the academy since the 1940s. SEN. JD VANCE OF OHIO ...

Air traffic controllers in Colorado lost contact with more than a dozen aircraft this week—but the transportation secretary seems to have other concerns.

View Study of a female figure with outstretched arms a detail study for the painting Purity abducted by Love by Jean Baptiste Greuze on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Jean Baptiste ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.

Italian missionary Juliano Aleni arrived in China in 1613 and published “Illustrated Life of Jesus” in 1637. In the book, Aleni reproduced images from the Spanish Jesuit Jéronimo Nadal’s “Evangelicae ...

In the 1909 painting, depicted above, Jesus asks for a drink. That he looks at us rather than her suggests something of the universality of his request, as the commentator cited above notes.

The painting in a key room in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was as striking as it was massive: Jesus, his arms outstretched, hovered over a lifeboat packed with grateful sailors, lost at sea.