First you notice John the Baptist’s pale face gazing longingly toward heaven. As you look further up the canvas, you see a shadowy, muscular figure holding a sword to the saint’s neck. Full of drama ...
St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City is easily the most recognizable church in the world. Visitors to the basilica are often left staring up in awe, taking in the grandeur and beauty of the world’s ...
A new exhibition, “Transforming Matter: Incarnation, Sacraments, and Saints in Catholic Art and Devotion,” is on display at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum through Saturday, May 18. The public ...
Whenever Alfonse Borysewicz addresses a fresh canvas, a daunting set of issues stares back at him. First, there is the fact that Borysewicz is painting from faith, when, for the most part, it doesn't ...
The monochrome woodcut, made in 1924, depicts two damned souls dancing in fiery agony, poked at by grinning horned demons with pitchforks. The top hat, white gloves, jewels and opera glasses show why.
Composite image: Drawing of Jesus (Wikimedia); Bobblehead figurine of Jesus are featured in this undated photo from the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee (CNS photo/courtesy ...
Attention Catholic artists: The Vatican has announced an art competition in which your paintings can be displayed inside of St. Peter’s Basilica along with the works of Renaissance masters ...
HUC’s Heller Museum exhibits prints based on the Passover song about a little goat and the disasters that follow in its wake. (New York Jewish Week) — “Had Gadya,” the playful song about a destructive ...
In the spring of 1988, Br. Mickey McGrath lost his voice. An Oblate of St. Francis de Sales since 1977, he had been teaching art history and studio art for more than five years at DeSales University ...
Catalogue of the Paintings, Portraits, Marble and Plaster Statuary, Engravings & Water Color Drawings, in the Collection of the Boston Museum, Tremont, near Court Street, Boston, together with a ...
Like the proverbial big red London bus, you wait a long time for a Catholic-interest exhibition and two arrive at the same time. Today, half of London’s four major museums are focusing on Catholic ...