AN unspoiled oasis in the heart of Italy, Umbria offers a serene escape for Scottish travellers into a landscape rich with medieval towns, ...

AN unspoiled oasis in the heart of Italy, Umbria offers a serene escape for Scottish travellers into a landscape rich with ...

The other three went up within a few decades, and all are laid out in roughly the same basilica style. (The fifth is in a monastery on a hill overlooking the village.) The frescoes painted along ...

ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin ...

O papa Leão XIV deixou a Basílica de San Giovanni in Latereno (ou São João de Latrão, em português), onde tomou posse da Cátedra do Bispo de Roma, e seguiu em direção à Basílica de ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi certainly fits that bill. As Zachary Ginsberg writes for The Wall Street Journal, in contrast to the precedent of depicting ...

Image credits: Archeology and art #3 Egyptian Scarab Bracelet, From Tomb Of Tutankhamun (1341-1323 Bc), And Was Made With Gold, Lapis-Lazuli, Carnelian, Turquoise And Other Semi-Precious Stones ...

In the home where the four people examined in the new study died, a central wall in the banquet hall has a fresco of Phrixus and his sister Helle from Greek mythology. As the myth goes ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

The new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop medieval village ... of the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel with a fresco by ...

Review: ‘Biblical Theology in the Life of the Early Church’ by Stephen O. Presley. In the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, vivid frescoes depict the unified story of salvation, centered on ...