In her new book, How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art, Lev chronicles how individuals such as Michelangelo and Caravaggio, and lesser-known ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

In contrast to the more demonstrative and effusive Catholic representation of Marian truth and ... 789-790. [16] For the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, see in particular E. J. Gratsch, Where ...

In his writings, Ignatius recommended meditating in the seclusion of a darkened room, aided by a symbol of one’s ... profound influence on Zurbarán’s art. So did Zurbarán’s own Catholic faith and the ...

Pope Francis during the opening of the Holy Door in Saint Peter Basilica on the 24th of December (Photo: Catholic Art/Dreamstime ... coincided with the Counter-Reformation, and became a tool to ...

It was followed by the Catholic Counter-Reformation, mainly through the Council of Trent which, ending in 1563, brought about a religious renewal in the Catholic Church. But this renewal ...

Religious war in Europe in the 1500s, 1600s, and early 1700s beginning in Germany stemmed from the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. It often pitted the nascent ...

Click and Clack, those lovable car mechanics of the airwaves, had many running jokes in their decades-long show, but probably none was so often used as their jabs against anyone studying art history.

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions ... died in June 1560 and the English sent support to counter her French troops. By 1560 the majority of the nobility ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A poster of a theater play to be presented by students of a Catholic university in Lima, which combines religious symbols with the figure of a man wearing female clothes ...