"It's not the Virgin Mary. It's a painting." These were the words uttered almost in unison by a group of Brooklyn Museum guards as they stood in front of Chris Ofili's picture titled The Holy Virgin ...

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 ...

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, by Pietro Testa © The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Source: Christian Art.

The still life paintings of Mary Fedden (1915–2012) reveal so much about her travels, sometimes through the objects selected for the paintings but mostly through setting them up in front of a view or ...

but is she modeling Mary, the Mother of Jesus? Or, on the contrary, are the unmistakable Marian motifs a shrewd pretext to exalt a popular actress? There is no easy answer to this question. The ...

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 ...

I n Rome, with massive solemnity, the canons of Santa Maria Maggiore took down from the altar the painting of Mary and Child known as Salus Populi Romani (Safety of the Roman people). Holding high ...

A 17th century painting that was lost, then rediscovered, is on display at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Why it ...