Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at age 88.

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ ... s cuffs and hemline belie a complicated relationship to the Judaism of the Holy Family. In Mantegna’s Italy, ...

Judas makes his choice today. Tissot’s painting of the Last Supper, one of four in his career, shows the moment of Jesus Christ distributing Holy Communion to the Twelve Apostles. The focus is ...

We’ve compiled a list of indoor and outdoor events in Northland that will keep everyone entertained and create lasting memories for the whole family. It would be impossible to enjoy the school ...

A new California law could help reunite the painting with a family desperate to get it back. Lilly Cassirer, a German Jew, had to pay a steep price to get her family out of Germany before World ...

A painting worth tens of millions of dollars was stolen by the Nazis during World War II and the fight to get it back recently made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to ...

This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. It's called Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday and it commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. It's the beginning of the holiest week on the Christian ...

One Reiji Miyajima series deserves the company of another, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in a new piece of art that mixes the creator’s The Shiunji Family Children and Rent-a-Girlfriend. Both ...

A primary school in Wallasey is the latest to join an academy trust. St Alban's Catholic Primary School became part of Holy Family Catholic Multi Academy Trust (HFCMAT) last week. A ...

The banana-yellow house belonging to Rajesh Vaishnav, a practitioner of the unusual jal sanjhi art form ... practice he believes was bestowed on his family by divine grace. In one corner of ...

I don’t know if you can go to heaven if you killed yourself, but I pray that he made it and that his family is at rest. God bless.” Jones is not the only incarcerated person whose art has made ...