About the year 1400, however, a new version of the Annunciation scene suddenly appeared in European paintings, which portrays Mary at the moment of the Annunciation in a richly flowering garden. The ...

Q: Where did the Annunciation take place? Art shows different scenes. A: The oldest example of a western representation of the Annunciation with Mary kneeling next to a source and with a pitcher or ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

The newly uncovered painting depicts a motif that was popular in the late Middle Ages. In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel drives a unicorn into a closed garden and into the lap ...

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

Conscious of the conflict between her then-feminist values and what would become a fascination with Marian art, she started on a quest to discover the Blessed Mother. The Mary Pages is the result ...

Historic women artists, wrote the art historian Pamela Gerrish Nunn in ... for the English 17th-century professional portraitist Mary Beale (1633-99). To continue the “doorstep” epithet ...

“He says to Mary: ‘Do not be afraid ... Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Reflecting on St. Luke’s Gospel account of the annunciation and incarnation of Jesus Christ, the pope encouraged ...

To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role". The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace".

Here are five fun things to do this weekend and beyond, including comedian Jo Koy, the Bonita Brew Fest and the annual Edison ...