The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ (1602-04) shows Jesus after he has been crucified.

The Baptism of Christ. Above is the Eternal, in a circle of cherubim and seraphim; an angel on either side: below, John and Christ standing in a stream; Mary Magdalen on one side, and an angel on the ...

In a moment of civil and spiritual crisis, the brilliant Capuchin monk rallied Christian forces — not with a sword, but with Scripture, a crucifix and unwavering faith.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 758. Summary Violent scene showing figures struggling ...

They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since?