Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant ...

Whether Jesus was held to the cross with nails or with ropes, what matters is that he was ingloriously and brutally killed by Rome. Behold this dying man! shout all four of the gospels, in (and let’s ...

The election of Leo XIV to the papacy has put an unexpected spotlight on one of the most unusual treasures of Catholic ...

While its early traces can be found during the Carolingian era ... offer two distinct versions of Jesus' genealogy. Their authors were less concerned with the accuracy of what we might call ...

where each church represent a station of the cross. There are 14 stations in total, depicting Jesus Christ's journey to his crucifixion and death. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines ...

Jesus on the cross was the poorest man in the world. Helplessness is of course difficult to depict in art, where the face of Jesus crucified is either shown in great agony—perhaps too ...

This is true in art, nature, and even in the design of human ... but also provides greater insights into the significance of Jesus’ death. Jesus spoke seven different times on the cross. Each ...

Of the Art Museum’s nearly 100 paintings by Eakins, only one is currently on view — and it’s his weirdest. After four years in storage, The Crucifixion, an eight-foot-tall picture of Jesus of Nazareth ...