Inside Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
The Isenheim Altarpiece is the masterpiece of Matthias Grunewald, one of the most powerful and disturbing works of the Northern…
Raphael’s Transfiguration: His Final Masterpiece
The Transfiguration is the last painting by Raphael, one of the supreme masters of the Italian High Renaissance. Begun around…
Inside Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam is the most famous scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo during the High…
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: Heaven and Terror
The Last Judgment is the great fresco that fills the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo in…
Christ Pantocrator: The Oldest Face of Jesus
Christ Pantocrator is the most famous early image of Jesus, an icon kept at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, on Mount Sinai….
The Ghent Altarpiece: Art’s Most Stolen Masterpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is one of the founding works of European painting,…
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Its Hidden Order
The Sistine Chapel ceiling is the vast fresco that Michelangelo painted over the papal chapel in the Vatican between 1508…
Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna and the Dawn of Realism
The Ognissanti Madonna is one of the most important paintings in the history of Western art, made by the Florentine…
Dali’s Corpus Hypercubus: A Crucifixion in Four Dimensions
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) is one of the most original religious paintings of the twentieth century, made by Salvador Dali in…
Holman Hunt’s Light of the World, a Knock of Grace
The Light of the World is one of the most famous religious paintings of the nineteenth century, made by the…