Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic, Romanesque or Baroque monuments are uniquely recognizable by their ...

On All Souls Day, and every day, there is one visitor to purgatory that the souls there especially long to see.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church will host its 53rd annual Holiday Bazaar, one of the longest-running in Midland.

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

I mean, they just make ‘em up as they go.” In an April 22 post, Cesar said the Virgin Mary, Jesus’ mother, was mentioned only 18 times in the Bible and not after the first chapter of the ...

But Western religious art, specifically Christian art ... in Siena’s snazzily ornate cathedral. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the city’s spiritual protector, the “Maestà” is no longer ...

but no one was better at painting the harsh, mindless pull of it, or hinting at the secret exertions in the act of standing. To the lower left, a crowd of women holds the staggering Mary the way ...

The painting, a copy of Botticelli’s ‘Virgin Mary, Infant Christ, and St. John the Baptist’, painted between 1490 and 1495 presents the Virgin Mary holding the son of God as a baby while a ...