In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Henry Ossawa Tanner painted "The Good Shepherd" ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have brought a striking new face of early Christianity into view, uncovering a rare fresco that shows Jesus clean-shaven and youthful rather than bearded and severe. The image ...

For decades, the interior of the Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption, a church in the town of Santa María Huiramangaro in Mexico, stood stark white, with blue accents. But the parish was not always ...

The exhibition "Museum of the Russian Icons" is now open at the Palazzo Pitti. Installation view of “The Museum of Russian Icons" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Courtesy of the Uffizi ...

Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use ...

A part of a picture shows Jesuit priests Rodolpho Acquaviva and Antonio Monserrate (in black) attending a meeting in the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar (Photo: Wikimedia) In a two-part series, Indian ...