COMMENTARY: The Pope’s recent off-the-cuff remarks have provided a teaching moment on universalism and reality. Ralph Martin, ...

We need only to gaze upon the Pietà, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica to see that he inherently understood the mission of salvation. What are we to make of Michelangelo Buonarroti? Was he a ...

In the art world, it has always been about who you know, not what you know. And who Michelangelo knew almost cost him his life. The banishment didn’t last for long, and they were reinstated in 1530.

Fresco by Blessed Fra Angelico of Christ the Judge (1447), from Orvieto Cathedral / Photo credit: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P., Flickr - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 You’re going to die someday, but your soul will live ...

From big shows in London and Amsterdam to a Cézanne tribute in the south of France, these art experiences will be worth the journey. By Emily LaBarge Note the exclamation mark in the title: “Leigh ...

Fra Angelico, also known as Guido di Pietro, was one of the most influential Italian artists of the early Renaissance. He was praised by his contemporaries and successors, inspiring artists from ...

What are we to make of Michelangelo Buonarroti? Was he a man of true faith, or was he given over to the sins that marred his time? After all, it was the age of the Renaissance, when Europe basked in ...

Pope Francis stirred up controversy with an informal remark concerning hell that he made Jan. 14 in an hourlong live interview with a popular Italian television program. While acknowledging that this ...

Clare Ford-Wille is an independent art historian, well known for her courses at the V&A, Birkbeck, ARTscapades and Morley College as well as a lecturer at the Wallace Collection, and for The Arts ...

Belief in afterlife higher among gen Z and millennials than in baby boomers, despite being less religious generally You may think the idea of hellfire belongs to an age when people’s lives were shaped ...

'Kıyamet Günü' ya da 'Son Yargı', Michelangelo tarafından yaklaşık 500 yıl önce, Vatikan'daki Sistine Şapeli'ne yapılmış bir fresktir. Aynı zamanda da tüm zamanların en tartışmalı (ve sansürlenmiş) ...

Throughout history, no art movement has had an impact as profound as Italian Renaissance art. Regarded as a golden age of art, music, and literature, the period has inspired creatives for centuries, ...