From the perspective of eternity, the prayers of believers unite them with the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the angels and saints. The entire heavenly court is involved in the prayers we offer ...

This solid gold exhibition celebrates the astonishing period 1300-1350 in the Italian city of Siena, which matched opulence, ...

A groundbreaking show at the Louvre dedicated to the medieval painter Cimabue includes an exceptionally rare panel discovered ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Indeed, only a year before the appearance of Duccio’s work, the Palio, Siena’s famous horse race, was first run as part of ...

which ordinary citizens weren’t allowed to wear but were just right for angels, saints and the Virgin: there are some examples of that oriental cloth here, sadly and inevitably faded.

Two dimensions come together in the painting: the eternal, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary, accompanied by various angels, who encounter her willing servants, and the temporal, the seven ...

In antiquity, statues were worshiped. As religions developed and faiths were defined in Biblical texts and commentaries, ...

Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that ...

It always makes me smile, imagining angels. Perhaps you have seen homes with small yards that have a plastic statue of the Virgin Mary often ... We honor saints for their holy lives.

O immaculate virgin, mother of God and mother of humanity ... the joy and gladness of all the angels and the saints, and from this earth, over which we tread as pilgrims, comforted by our faith ...

And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy ... join our unworthy prayers of praise and thanksgiving to those of the angels and saints and your own-the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity ...