religious art

us supreme court building at dusk 
SCOTUS Denies Jewish Heirs Guelph Treasure Seized by Nazis

On Wednesday, February 3, the US Supreme Court announced a unanimous decision on a landmark case, siding with Germany in a Nazi-era restitution case regarding the Guelph Treasure.

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Murillo's Virgin Mary Defaced in Restoration
A recently botched restoration of a once beautiful painting of the Virgin Mary is proving once again why it’s best to leave some tasks to the experts.
painting of christ with a halo and dove above his head with several angels, outside with a blue sky and trees
Should the Uffizi's Religious Art be Returned to Churches?
Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 2015, recently bemoaned the fact that so many great works of religious art are languishing in museum storage.
Leonardo da Vinci the Annunciation
Seclusion, Sin, and Sanctity: The Virgin Mary’s Enclosed Gardens
Finding new meanings in the Hortus Conclusus
Altarpieces with many saints
Who's Who? How to recognize saints in Art
Have you ever wondered who you are looking at in medieval and Renaissance altarpieces? This video will serve as a primer for identifying saints in art.
Andy Warhol, Madonna and Child, 1950s. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
How Warhol’s Catholic Upbringing Influenced his Art
The Andy Warhol Museum presents Andy Warhol: Revelation, the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.
Henri Matisse, Rose Colored Chasuble, 1951
The Unlikely Marriage of Secular Artists and the Church
When asked if his work was inspired by God, Matisse replied, “Yes, but that god is me.” 
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The Holy Thorn Reliquary, One of the Greatest Relics of Medieval Christianity
The Holy Thorn Reliquary is a work of both ornate beauty and sublime significance. The grandeur and intricacy of the late-medieval French goldsmith’s craft is harnessed for the reverence of a single…
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Getty Museum Displays Recently Acquired Rare Torah

LOS ANGELES – The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced the acquisition of the Rothschild Pentateuch, a manuscript of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Torah. Its…

Sacred Noise: Modern Art and the Death of God

A dedicated exhibition at Christie’s in London explores themes of religion, faith and divinity in post-war and contemporary art.

Themes of religion, faith and divinity have pervaded art…

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Stunning Sartorial Displays Dazzle at the Met’s “Heavenly Bodies”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, sprawls across the Fifth Avenue location’s Medieval, Byzantine, and Lehman galleries and its Anna…