A leading figure in academic Catholic feminism after the Second Vatican Council, Anne E. Carr was also a renowned scholar and an inspiration to generations of theologians.

As you make your way around the tree-covered, curved driveway toward the three-story brick home at the end of the circle ...

Caretakers at a church in Spain have resigned over a deeply unpopular restoration of a statue of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin ...

The Virgin of La Macarena is one of Spain 's most famed Catholic effigies, and many Spaniards travel south every year to ...

A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you ...

Virgin enthroned with child, surrounded by angels and saints, the central panel of the Maesta, 1308-1311, by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Gift this article 7 min read ...

In the painting, the Virgin Mary and Jesus, as a child, are flanked by the French King Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, and Saint Margaret. Margaret seems to emerge unperturbed from a drooling ...

Another painting Caravaggio created in 1606 was the Death of the Virgin, depicting the death of Virgin Mary. Commissioned by a Carmelite church of Rome, it was rejected because of its content. In ...

The next day, he visited the Basilica of Saint Mary Major to pray to the Virgin Mary, ... Romanesque, Baroque, and Renaissance architecture, reflecting centuries of faith and artistic achievement.

As Duccio’s angel Gabriel, back foot lifted, pink-gold wing billowing, strides into Mary’s courtyard, the National Gallery’s “Annunciation” (1308-11) announces the coming of a new art as ...

The section uncovered so far comprises a stunning, Renaissance-era altarpiece. ... The left-hand lateral panel depicts St. Anne, accompanied by her daughter the Virgin Mary with Jesus on her lap.