Your favourite kiss in art? Perhaps it's Gustav Klimt's. The clinch is close. The couple are enveloped and almost demate-rialising under the mass of gold-ornamented fabric. But it's true that their ...

“What will be God’s,” asks Tertullian, “if all things are Caesar’s?” It’s a challenging question at a time when the state is asking us to acquiesce to a secret, unaccountable police force.

CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a ...

The first thing you should know about the glorious new show "Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance" at the J. Paul Getty Museum is that seven works by Giotto di Bondone — considered one of art ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

It’s a familiar ensemble ““ an extremely large Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, while a brigade of disproportionately smaller saints and patrons frame the throne, all with shiny gold discs ...

The people he painted were beautiful even though his own children were ugly. That’s what Giotto’s contemporaries said about him. A Nativity scene that the Italian artist created for the Scrovegni ...