Voltaire’s stance appears straightforward: he condemns Christianity, and he is almost commissioned to complete its ...

Here's everything you need to know about Ash Wednesday and Lent and more on what these religious practices are all about.

Ash Wednesday is one week away and begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...

From February 11-16, 2025, in celebration of the Feast of Saint Sargis, the National Gallery of Armenia showcased a painting ...

News from Italy that Fra Angelico's Deposition of Christ, one of the masterpieces of the Museo di San Marco in Florence, has ...

This is the first thought I have when I see Double Bed, a recent painting by the artist Catherine Murphy, during a December ...

Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting", the frieze depicts a procession, with Dionysus joined by the bacchantes, his female followers. They are portrayed both as dancers or as ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices ...

The Connecticut museum exhibits stellar drawings from its holdings, spanning centuries and featuring such artists as ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii have discovered an enormous, extremely rare wall painting depicting an ancient mystery cult, at the ...