Charles Borromeo's spirituality was heavily influenced by the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola. These exercises ...

Lasting for 150 years, the Baroque period of architecture, music, and art influenced churches ... the Baroque style of architecture was part of the Catholic Church’s strategy to bring people back to ...

It’s now possible to wander the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican emptied of tourists and worshippers. This comes courtesy ...

In practice, Latin as the lingua propria of the Church has been supplanted by modern languages; Gothic and Baroque architecture still shout “Catholic ... the absence of art that glorifies ...

Online visitors can navigate the Vatican basilica’s mosaics, the cupola, the underground necropolis and Peter’s tomb. A ...

The Scuderie del Quirinale presents “GUERCINO. The Ludovisi Era in Rome,” a major new exhibition from October 31, 2024, to ...

where Baroque art originated. These paintings, many commissioned by the Catholic Church at the time, brim with dark, intense emotion and powerful drama, and feature still lifes and portraits of ...

It would do America a real service if we spent less time on politics and more on the things that rouse the spirit and feed ...

“Much was lost while São Paulo baroque was less valued,” says art historian Mozart Costa, a professor of artistic restoration at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-SP) and the City University of ...

Venerated today as a co-inventor of Cubism, which he developed in spirited competition with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Gris is widely celebrated for pioneering a new kind of art.

Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic, Romanesque or Baroque monuments are uniquely recognizable by their ...

“It would be good for you to socialize with someone. Even the pedophiles!” ...