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A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual art. Titled Ancient India: ...
Detail of Michelangelo’s fresco “Ignudi” on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City (c. 1508–12) (image via Wikimedia Commons). This made the Christian church an incredibly queer ...
Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is the first museum to explore the spiritual and religious dimensions in contemporary art. Through exhibitions, collections and ...
Crypto-religious art maintains its “crypto” status by not declaring itself, and the culture wars of the late-Reagan-early-Bush years made that position untenable.
Since the Renaissance, modern religious art has loosed itself increasingly from medieval motifs. As a result, even the most sacred biblical themes came to reflect the spirit of a humanistic age.
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* ...
Christian art, and contemporary Christian artists eager for their work to be shared with the world, there's little excuse to choose generative AI for the Facebook feed or the parish bulletin.
Christian art is, in fact, deeply rooted in pagan iconography. Giovanni Bellini and Titian, “The Feast of the Gods” (1514–29), oil on canvas, 67 x 74 inches (~170 x ~188 cm) ...
Rupnik’s Jesuit religious order expelled him in 2023 after more than two dozen women accused him of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuses, some while he was creating the artwork.
A 500-year-old religious artwork has been discovered in a private collection in Guernsey. Experts said it is from the workshop of important Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst, or by an artist ...