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They were honoring a giant double-sided altarpiece with 53 pictures depicting martyrs, saints, miracles, and poignant scenes from the lives of Mary and Jesus. At the center on one side was a life ...

A small panel painting of Jesus hung over the hot plate in an elderly ... On Sunday (Oct. 27), that painting — actually a lost work by the early Renaissance master Cimabue — sold at auction ...

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper ...

A Renaissance painting once stolen ... according to the auction house Christie’s. The painting depicts Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus resting while en route to Egypt to seek safety from King ...

Exhibiting a painting by the Renaissance master Raphael has generally ... similarity between the child and the altarpiece’s Jesus. Some experts on the artist disagree. Hassan Ugail, a professor ...

Jesus’s feet are typically depicted one of two ways in Renaissance paintings: nail-punctured and bloody, or in the process of receiving a good scrub. However, in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last ...

and one eagle-eyed Twitter user noticed that it is strikingly similar to a famous Renaissance painting of Jesus Christ. Twitter user Egmont Contreras spotted the photo of Belichick and noticed the ...