Art Advent Calendar of Nativities
Today December starts and that means it is the countdown until Christmas Day. To celebrate, here is an art advent calendar of nativity scenes,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 December 2020
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All the Prodigal Sons in Art
A quick internet search for “the Prodigal Son in art” yields some 13,000,000 results! What makes this 2,000-year-old story so compelling that...
Ledys Chemin 27 November 2020
The Erotic Potential of The Temptation of St. Anthony
Christianity has brought many popular topics to art over the centuries, yet the interpretation of a religious motif can drastically change depending...
Guest Author 11 September 2020
Talk about the Passion – Exploring Art at Easter
Easter Holy Week and The Crucifixion The final days of Holy Week are traditionally associated with the trial and execution of Jesus, culminating in...
Jon Kelly 10 April 2020
Iconography of Ganesh
Ganesh is the patron God of writers and intellectuals, and arguably the most well-known of the Hindu Gods. He is worshipped across all sects of...
Maya M. Tola 12 November 2019
Open to Influences – Arthur Hacker and his Mary with Many Qualities
Arthur Hacker was a painter of the late Victorian era. Painting a spectrum of subjects, everything from society portraiture, classical, religious and...
Hannah Demaine 12 October 2019
A Special Appearance of Leonardo’s Saint Jerome
A very special painting has just arrived in New York! To honor the five hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death, Leonardo da Vinci’s...
Alexandra Kiely 13 July 2019
I Put a Spell on You—Vodou Art
Vodou is one of the most misunderstood belief systems in the world. Derided by the Church and popular culture, in fact it is a fascinating system of...
Candy Bedworth 19 June 2019
Gentle Giant in the River. Medieval Representations of Saint Christopher
In 1904, an extensive report made for the British Archaeological Association revealed that in England there were more wall paintings of Saint...
Guest Author 21 May 2019
Mormon Art: Painting the Gospel
The Church of the Latter Day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church) was founded by Joseph Smith in the 19th Century and currently has over...
Heather Johnson 2 May 2019
The Complicated Meaning and Mysterious Origin of The Cloisters Cross
The Cloisters Cross is a beautiful English Romanesque walrus ivory cross, likely dating to the middle of the 12th century. From the moment it...
Alexandra Kiely 19 January 2019
Let It Be: The Annunciation in Medieval and Renaissance Christian Art
Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism – being able to visually...
Rachel Witte 28 August 2018
