Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the ...

Sumptuous, large, heavy and used in centuries past to warm the walls of Europe’s great stone castles and cathedrals, ...

Ditch the car and discover the American cities, from California to Connecticut, with attractions you can stroll to ...

Jesus and John the Baptist (Ioannis o Prodromos) mosaic in Hagia Sophia. Credit: Patricia Barden, Flickr, CC-BY NC ND 2.0 The mosaics of Hagia Sophia after the Ottoman conquest. After the Ottoman ...

The Fall River Diocese shut down the St. John the Baptist Church in November of 2012, attributing the closure decision to declining Mass attendance, $1.5 million worth of needed repairs, and ...

10. Mosaic of St. John the Baptist. Mosaic of St. John the Baptist. Photo by Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock. Created by Benedictine artist Radbod Commandeur in the 20th century, this mosaic depicts St.

Maybe the most important American artist you’ve never heard of. A retrospective of the major abstract painter Jack Whitten, at the Museum of Modern Art, blew our reviewer away.

Art Institute's elaborately displayed tooth, thought to belong to John the Baptist, turns out not to The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th century, too young ...

Carol and I went to the Museum of Modern Art last Friday night, when it stays open until 8:30. When we decided to go, we did not know Friday nights are free for New York residents. The line was longer ...

Jasleen Kaur, a 38 year-old Glaswegian, is this year's winner of the Turner Prize, Britain's foremost - and absurdly hyped - prize for modern art. It's difficult to do justice to Kaur's creation.

Photorealist art, once dismissed as simplistic, gets reconsidered in a sprawling MOCA exhibition in downtown L.A. that includes the premiere of provocative work centered on the Kennedy assassination.

The second episode of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Fox Nation series "The Saints" focuses on John the Baptist, a pillar of Christianity and the patron saint of converts.