Sacred art is not defined by appearances or even an artist’s intention. It is holy when it awakens us to God, ourselves and ...

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It has long been suggested that art and faith have been intertwined.  However, in the art world, the region of religious or ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...

The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

NEW YORK -- In 1983, at Japan Society in Manhattan, I saw a show of early Buddhist sculpture so beautiful that I maxed out my Visa card to fly to Japan to find more. It was my first time there. I ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Bridge Projects is a new gallery space that seeks to link art with spiritual and religious traditions. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — For Linnéa Spransy, who grew up in a Christian commune in ...

"Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in ...

Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic Mass with ...

Outside his parish, a mosaic of Augustinian saints — including Saint Monica, Clare of Montefalco, and Saint Rita of Cascia — ...

On April 2, 1980, Andy Warhol met Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. John Paul was in the first bloom of his pontificate, and his image as a young, strong, independent-minded world citizen had ...