They visited the historic city of Burgos, the medieval capital of Castile, stopping in at the cathedral to admire its Gothic bombast and dark depiction of Christ on the Cross. It would be Picasso’s ...

(RNS) It is not easy to be a respected member of the art-world intelligentsia and take religion seriously. “Religion and modern art continue to be typecast as mortal enemies,” writes Aaron Rosen. But ...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP)--An artist who sued the city of Deltona for removing his religious paintings from City Hall has been given permission to rehang his paintings.Lloyd Marcus' three paintings ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Henry Ossawa Tanner painted "The Good Shepherd" ...

In a significant departure, Sawai Chinnawong grounds his artistry in his own culture. When Sawai Chinnawong, 63, first committed his life to Christ in college in 1983, the artist tried painting Bible ...

For thousands of years art has played an important part in faith. “I would say that religion has always been an important theme in art,” says Nancy Ross, an assistant professor of art history at Dixie ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...