For the culturally curious traveller, here’s a tour of Switzerland, one art museum at a time. Photography fans, art lovers ...

While the facade is attractive and the massing is well proportioned, the church earns the nickname “the Little Cathedral of ...

10.2 x 15 cm. (4 x 5.9 in.) ...

it's his hand holding the spike to nail Christ to the cross. Rembrandt understood it. That's why he painted The Raising of the Cross as a self-portrait. The soldier pulling the cross of the crucified ...

An artist has created work to celebrate a town's "unique past, present and future" as part of its £12m regeneration. Alan ...

This moment will also serve as a reminder that every Christian is called to martyrdom—in other words, to bear witness in ...

First Thessalonians is the first of two letters Paul addressed to the believers in Thessalonica. Paul’s teaching on death and ...

The Samaritans were a group of people who inhabited the region of Samaria in ancient Israel. One theory claims their origins ...

The second phase of the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece – The Night Watch – is in motion.

Dramatically lit with light entering from upper left, highlighting the man (Christ) in an open stage-like area inside an antiquated courtyard. Armored Roman guards with spears stand behind him. A man ...

Rembrandt was never shy about showing naked bodies or erotic subjects in a realistic way. In the 1640s he created several scenes of courting couples outdoors, and The Monk in the Cornfield is one of ...