Hands clasped in joy, face framed by a wimple, she could with equal élan propose that Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard ter ...

“Bluets” — the title refers to the delicate, diminutive wildflower but also to the abstract artist Joan ... the rich ultramarine robes of the Virgin Mary in paintings. Made from ground ...

Perhaps you have seen homes with small yards that have a plastic statue of the Virgin Mary often stripped down ... Praying, on the other hand, is abstract and bound up in ideas and words.

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

Still-life painting is one of the oldest genres in history, yet it is often dismissed as too simple and not serious enough to ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary in Italy that was said to be “weeping tears of blood” has been at the centre of controversy for years. Now, new forensic tests have finally provided an answer to ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It's believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

Gisella Cardia claimed to have been receiving messages from a statue of the Virgin Mary in Trevignano Romano, a town outside Rome, Italy. The statue, which was mounted in a glass case on a hill in ...

Artists Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly and Tyler Rai come from different religious and cultural backgrounds and bring ...

(Kevin Todora / Cris Worley Fine Arts) Abstract painting is a hardy perennial of the art world. Trends may come and go, but the practice of translating visual experience into line and color continues.

Abstract art has been with us for well over a century and, despite the efforts of art historians, critics, curators, and sundry museums, the public continues to ask: What is it? Why is it?