Many artists, including Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, has explored abstinence in their work Earlier this month ...

A Renaissance (c. 1524) oil-on-panel painting depicting Mary Magdalene transferring ointment from a maiolica pharmacy jar to a smaller vessel. Now located at the Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

You get the picture. Dixie follows him everywhere she possibly can. That’s how I picture Mary Magdalene. Jesus rescued her from seven demons (Luke 8:2). Because of that, Mary Magdalene became a ...

In its goals to transport readers “to the moment in history when Impressionism made beholders alert and uncomfortable” (7) and to offer a springboard for future inquiries, André Dombrowski’s edited ...

Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese explains the significance of Mary Magdalene and her story for ‘The Saints,’ streaming exclusively on Fox Nation. Key Trump agency facing 'unprecedented ...

Elizabeth Tabish is reflecting on her experience with religion before starring as Mary Magdalene on The Chosen. "I grew up Catholic, and we moved to Oklahoma when I was a kid. It was kind of the ...

It has been authenticated by art historian Mina Gregori, who has written several books on Caravaggio. Painted in chiaroscuro technique — characterised by dramatic contrasts between light and shadow — ...

transformed the visual language of baroque art with his emotive realism and masterful technique, an example of which is evident in Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, painted while the artist was in exile ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, renowned for his revolutionary use of light and shadow, transformed the visual language of baroque art with his emotive realism and masterful technique, an example ...

In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic ...