Throughout Lent this year, the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., is hosting an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s Basilica to be crowned ...

Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Macon unveils new iconography, enhancing worship with vibrant new iconography.

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

This new "blockbuster" at the National Gallery – featuring more than 100 exhibits including paintings, manuscripts and ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

It is a prime example of Byzantine art but also serves as an iconic image of Byzantium ... Theodora had monophysite leanings, believing that Jesus was only divine and not human. She became a patron of ...

A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

Credit: Pistillo99, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Byzantine art and architecture also left a lasting impression on our modern world, in ways direct and indirect. These later influenced Europe via ...

To the shock the art history community ... Cimabue has not created a straightforward Byzantine interpretation of the Virgin and baby Jesus. Rather, he has created a three-dimensionality with ...

The conventional image of a fully bearded Jesus with long hair did not become established until the sixth century in Eastern Christianity, and much later in the West Medieval art in Europe ...