One of only two female Founder members of the Royal Academy, Mary Moser was highly celebrated in her own lifetime and greatly admired for her paintings of flowers. Mary was the only daughter of the ...

The painting’s subject has been the matter of much debate but it is now believed to show the conversion of Mary Magdalene. In western Christianity since the Middle Ages, Mary Magdalene was considered ...

This 19th century painting depicts a young Mary, Queen of Scots, and is possibly copied from an earlier portrait. Mary's life is one of the most dramatic and tragic tales in Scottish history. She ...

A portrait believed to be of Mary, Queen of Scots has been found beneath a 16th Century painting. The drawing was revealed in an X-ray of the 1589 portrait of Sir John Maitland, Lord Chancellor of ...

In our time Pope Paul VI has expounded, at great length, the value of the Angelus in the last section of his apostolic exhortation on proper devotion to Mary, Marialis Cultus (1974). There is a ...

Mary sits at Christ’s feet ... whose inventory of 1637 mentions a painting by Velázquez of ‘a kitchen where a woman is pounding garlic’ – though there is no reference to the religious subject in the ...

41409) General Description: The Latin inscription on top of the panel characterizes this painting as “the threefold devout contemplation of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” The Rosary had ...

This is the only known painting of Mary Seacole (1805-81), a nurse in the Crimean War and a woman of great courage and humanitarianism, who overcame considerable obstacles to pursue her career. Born ...

Ramsay, named after his father who was a poet, was internationally renowned for his outstanding portraits. He attended the new Academy of Saint Luke in Edinburgh and then continued his artistic ...