The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery ...

This description tells us that if we want to start taking a painting ... Italian poetry, the woman who is idealized into some sublimated form who's completely unbelievable, in a way. The Virgin ...

Feb. 18 is the feast of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter of the early Italian Renaissance. When Pope John ...

Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...

From Tracey Emin’s bed and Banksy’s Armoured Dove to Picasso's Guernica and Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait, our favourite works ...

Historic Braga is fast becoming an arts epicentre, with their efforts rewarded by being crowned the Portuguese Capital of ...

Swap Porto for Braga, Portugal's 2025 Capital of Culture. This historic yet hip city offers Roman ruins, spiritual festivals ...

A woman proclaimed a miracle when her Virgin Mary statue began to 'weep tears of blood.' Now, a new DNA analysis of the blood ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary has been the unlikely recipient of a DNA swab, after it appeared to be weeping blood. Results from the test make a miracle appear unlikely, and a criminal case against its ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...