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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 ...

The first is “Christ Discovered in the Temple ... Baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary are all in gold — a symbol of divinity. No halos — therefore, less gold in Duccio’s version. His looks much more like a ...

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 ...

Mary and Joseph present the two turtledoves as a gift to the Temple on the double occasion of Mary's purification and Jesus's presentation. At the far left a woman dressed in red holds a black rod ...

A Twitter user spotted a striking resemblance between a recent photo of Bill Belichick and a Renaissance painting of Jesus Christ. The Associated Press photographer Matt York took the photo during ...

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 ...

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 ...