Born in 626 in what is now Belgium, into a noble family.
The Daphni Monastery in Athens is one of the greatest Byzantine masterpieces and an example of architecture and religious ...
Father Emmanuel Torres, associate pastor at Christ the King Church in Little Rock, uses art as a form of prayer and comfort.
It can be a sign of Christ’s Incarnation in Mary’s womb ... However, the enclosed garden and the sealed fountain do play a minor role in Marian iconography before the fourteenth century. The Wyscherad ...
A long-lost Cimabue panel discovered on a kitchen wall north of Paris in 2019 is at the heart of a landmark exhibition on the ...
especially when related to the devotion of the heart as seems to be the case with the Christ image. Marian artist Beverly Stoller works from her "Theotokos" art studio in Fairfield, Conn. She says a ...
Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th.But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th.For ...
The inner dynamism of Christian prayer is opened to other members of the family of God. The first and preeminent of such ...
The first is “Christ Discovered in the Temple” (1324). This remarkable artwork, although vaguely associated with the Biblical narrative of the evangelist Luke 2:41-51, shows a family psychodrama. The ...
There are other notable deviations in The Last Judgment, such as Christ being depicted beardless—a departure from traditional iconography. As Leo Steinberg, the American art critic, points out ...
bent in the effort like Christ carrying the cross, appropriating and reactivating with a twist this classic Christian iconography. The imposition of Catholicism with the subsequent removal of ...