Works like Simone Martini’s “Christ on the Cross” (1340) simultaneously glow and ooze in a dramatic contrast. The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives ...
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
Luce carries symbols that have been associated with pilgrimage in Europe since the 12th century, particularly with the shrine of St. James in northwestern Spain.
The government of Armenia has given today a preliminary positive assessment to a project that seeks to erect a statue of Jesus Christ on Mount Atis in Kotayk ... 4 days The reduction of the QR code ...
The church added: "There was also a time in Europe when statues of Jesus were colored Black. The message being conveyed by this practice was to manifest the truth conveyed by the Apostle Paul in his ...
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran church has an eye-catching design with many impressive features, such as 12 statues of the apostles of Jesus Christ on the roof ... 1763 and 1765 and is a combination ...
An iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil could soon be dwarfed by a new statue of Jesus’s mother. A Polish billionaire and his wife have announced plans to build a statue of the Virgin ...
A Polish billionaire and his wife have just announced plans to build a statue of the Virgin Mary in his home country.
The statue was stolen from the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, almost exactly a year after a vandal shattered the shrine ...
A map of the proposed statues. “The stations of the cross are 14 significant points in Jesus Christ’s crucifixion scene and leading up to that crucifixion scene,” said Father Jake Schneider.
The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out ... The painting is of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus and around her are Saints Sixtus and Barbara, and two Cherubs who are looking ...
Manila (AFP) – Scores of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual ...