A ubiquitous presence before fading into the American ether, Catholic art may be experiencing something of a renaissance, in the unlikeliest places. Clockwise from top: The Floriani ensemble sings ...

Full of drama and realism, this is not a Renaissance oil painting. This is modern-day Catholic art. Now in the 30th year of his art career, Eric Armusik, 50, is a classical figurative artist based ...

His art, he says, draws him closer to ... I learned more and more about being a Catholic. The more I learned about Renaissance work and these Christian symbols, I began to pray more and pray ...

it would attract young people to the Catholic faith — just as it had happened to him. “It’s a little, first try to hopefully encourage the church to have a renaissance in art,” said Heidemann.

“The first rooms are devoted to art for the Catholic Church ... Art of Medieval and Renaissance Europe,” displays artifacts from churches still very much in use. For example, a fragment ...

Have you ever seen a Renaissance portrait ... a powerful Catholic cleric and diplomat, and it’s one of two versions. The other, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, portrays Archinto conventionally.

Tackling Renaissance sculpture is unusual despite ... The tender side of Catholic art is seen in Donatello's Pazzi Madonna (from Staatliche Museen Berlin), which is also an early exercise in ...

Joanna Moorhead on the new Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, reopening after a two- and-a-half-year refurbishment, and now resembling more closely than ever an early Renaissance church in ...

The primacy of the nude in Renaissance art is often framed in terms of a static cultural narrative in which the classically inspired figures of 15th-century Italy were opposed by the more ...