New film recounts the story of six religious groups and how each fought for their right to exercise their faith — and why it ...

Then again, the weight in question was an unusually hefty one, given it came in the form of Ripley Castle, a vast and ancient ...

This combination of political radicalism and biblical Christianity makes Stringfellow a strange but refreshing voice today, ...

Norfolk has the largest concentration of medieval churches in the world. Almost 1000 were built, and today an incredible 639 ...

This week in 2005, the first Family Portrait was printed in Philadelphia Gay News and has featured stories from across the ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael ... an art historian and the old masters specialist at Sotheby’s, tells Sarah Cascone of Artnet. “The work has an elegance ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

A tiny portrait, carved from mammoth ivory, is revealing insights into the distant past. Discovered in the Czech Republic, it is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving personal portrait ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for ... or pattern of fine cracks that form on the surface of old paintings. “It was like uncovering a puzzle ...

It turns out that even history’s most successful artists occasionally recycled their own canvases. A revered religious ...