Adoration of the Shepherds in 10 Luminous Paintings
The Adoration of the Shepherds is the moment in Saint Luke’s Gospel when the first visitors reach the newborn Christ….
15 Spanish Saints and the Painters Who Gave Them Their Faces
Spain has given the Church more canonised saints than almost any other nation, and it did something rarer still: it…
Francis Xavier: The Missionary Whose Body Refused to Decay
In February 1553 a burial party on a Chinese island dug up a crate they had packed with quicklime ten…
Agnus Dei: 7 Famous Lamb of God Paintings, From Van Eyck to Zurbaran
The Lamb of God, in Latin the Agnus Dei, is one of the oldest and richest images in Christian art….
10 Wedding at Cana Paintings of Christ’s First Miracle
Wedding at Cana paintings gather around the very first miracle of Jesus. In the Gospel of John, Christ, his mother,…
Jesus and the Lamb: 7 Good Shepherd Paintings of Christ and His Sheep
The Good Shepherd is one of the oldest and most beloved images in Christian art, and among the very…
The Tender Paintings of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo paintings give Spanish Baroque art its warmest voice. Step into the Madonnas and child Christs of Sevillian devotion.