He was born in Boston in 1960 and educated at Tokyo National University as well as at Bucknell in Pennsylvania, and he paints in a manner that is all his own–a manner that is just as commanding and ...

Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...

IN the church of Saint-Germain des Prés, the oldest church in Paris, situated in the Rue Bonaparte, now a dense quarter of the most poetical part of the city, Flandrin has painted his frescos ...

I do not feel as if I belong to this modern life . . .my real life is back in the age of the cathedrals.—Georges Rouault It’s hard to believe that World War I was raging across Europe 100 years ago ...

GLOUCESTER, Mass. - On two walls in the sky-lit studio of artist Bruce Herman hangs a set of eight intimate portraits. Each face locks eyes directly with the viewer's and won't let go, as if crying ...

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (RNS) On two walls in the sky-lit studio of artist Bruce Herman hangs a set of eight intimate portraits. Each face locks eyes directly with the viewer’s and won’t let go, as if ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...