where the Virgin – usually at prayer – finds herself surprised by the angel. About the year 1400, however, a new version of the Annunciation scene suddenly appeared in European paintings, which ...

Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures ... “May the Virgin Mary bless / Us with her holy ...

In the New Testament Mary speaks only four times, beginning with the Annunciation ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ...

The work of former University of Virginia students comes together in “A Continuous Storyline: Four Decades of UVA Painters” ...

Crucifixion paintings are hard to find in American art of the 19th century, a time when top painters rarely made religious art. (An exception: Eakins’ pupil Henry O. Tanner, whose glorious The ...

Some students and Catholic community members plan to hold a Rosary Rally to protest the piece, which the artist said they ...

Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith ... [the feast of] The Annunciation to the holy Mother of God ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Mary Gardens, gardens planted with herbs and flowers that through the ages have been associated with the Virgin Mary, can be said to have roots that go back to ...

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 ...

Although raised in an atheist household, as a child she saw images of the Blessed Virgin ... Mary’s story when I was an atheist. I wanted to uncover what she was all about; I felt that paintings ...

I sat beside a row of small cups, their green bowls disguising the colors of the earthy olive oil within. Cristina Stribacu, founder of LIA Extra Virgin Olive Oil in Messenia, Greece, was leading ...