Every year as I’m unpacking my grandmother’s nativity set, I hide the ceramic baby in a drawer. My grandmother installed the ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art's most recent gallery opening coincided with the beginning of Advent, in Christendom a period ...

Now back on display after a decade of restoration work, the Italian mannerist Parmigianino's "huge" altarpiece "The Vision of ...

Archaeologists were shocked to discover the painting on the coffin which had more than a passing resemblance to the famous ...

The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman ...

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of ...

Ella Baxter’s new novel reminds us that mediocrity is far more common than genius.

Centuries after Jan van Eyck painted The Arnolfini Portrait many unanswered abound about this masterpiece of the Northern ...