Caravaggio: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness. Photograph: Nelson-Atkins Digital Production and Preservation Caravaggio: St Catherine of Alexandria.

The stunning Greek island of Patmos is the location apostle John received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament.

Cranach, a renowned German Renaissance artist and close friend of Martin Luther, was known for his ability to blend religious themes with emotional immediacy. In this work, Matthias' discarded cloak ...

St John’s Grammar School has honored Apostle General Sam Korankye-Ankrah, Founder of Royalhouse Chapel International and a distinguished alumnus, for his exceptional contributions to the school ...

(The Conversation) — The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s painting.

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

A judge this week ruled in favor of a Virginia Beach family in a legal dispute with Saint John the Apostle School regarding the suspension of a student who reported finding a bullet on campus.

7. The person to the left of Jesus is not a woman (or doubling as Mary Magdalene) — it’s Saint John. Many mistakenly believe that Saint John is a woman in the painting. Da Vinci likely gave him a more ...

Ahead of his first solo show in Hong Kong, Prestige meets buzzy Brooklyn painter Will St John, who depicts modern-day subjects through a classical lens.

This Renaissance masterpiece had been hidden for centuries—until now Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...

A changing contemplative theology of flesh led by friars throughout Italy inspired Sienese artists to imbue their figures with more dimensionality and emotion.

This was, Bohl says, “something very new in the art of painting”. The Maestà will be a centrepiece of the exhibition A New Look at Cimabue: The Origins of Italian Painting, showing at the Louvre.