“For too long, Christian art has implied pale imitation,” Detweiler said. “We’re trying to get back to the days of the Renaissance, where the church was the patron of the finest art.” ...

Reviewers of the Piero della Francesca exhibit seem to want to hold the Renaissance painter's genius close but his religion at arm's length. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s ...

The greatest Renaissance paintings did not just captivate ... It also shows the personalities of each apostle. This is a religious art piece by Andrea Mantegna. He painted it in 1480.

Breaking new ground, Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpieces used Christian themes and classic ... with some of Florence’s greatest works of art. (See also: The Sistine Chapel ...

But the work isn’t medieval; it’s early Renaissance art. As a part of the current ... depicts Christ being crucified along with religious figures at the bottom grieving with a great sense ...

Beyond the venue’s religious significance, the presentation of the works in Belgium itself – the home of Northern Renaissance art – brings another layer of meaning to the exhibition. In Kaphar’s work, ...

Mori combines Japanese anime and pop art with some of the most iconic religious portraits of the Renaissance era to create a fresh new take on classical Western and Japanese "rimpa"-style art. Mori ...

Just as he was leaving Antwerp on July 2, he received a message from King Christian II of Denmark ... and will be included in the exhibition Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian which opens ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona ... like this very pagan ancient goddess of love. The great pre-Christian thinkers, like Plato and Aristotle, were back in vogue.