In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

While parts of the country's heritage wound up in prestigious museums abroad, others have suffered humiliating fates at home.

However, there is another tradition that many Christians follow – that of tattooing. Historically, Easter was an important time for tattoos among some Christian groups. Today, Christian tattooing ...

A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting in ...

The exhibition 3-D: Focus on the Figure open from December 18 at the Flint Institute of Arts and continues through January 30, 2011.

Entitled, 'Artemisia, l'héroïne de l'art' ('Artemisia ... one of the most remarkable Renaissance collections outside Italy, so much so as to make it an "almost Italian" museum.

The recent scientific analysis of a mysterious painting that hung in a church in Pompeii for centuries has revealed it to be by the Renaissance ... returning to art history a masterpiece that ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily ...