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…
John of the Cross: The Poet Who Wrote His Masterpiece in a Prison Cell
On the night of 2 December 1577 a group of Carmelite friars broke into a small house in Avila and…
El Greco’s Disrobing of Christ, Espolio: The Red Robe of Christ
The Disrobing of Christ, known in Spanish as El Espolio, is one of the great masterpieces of El Greco, painted between…
El Greco’s Christ Carrying the Cross: A Gaze to Heaven
Christ Carrying the Cross is one of the most tender and inward images of the Passion, painted by El Greco…
15 El Greco Paintings That Still Feel Otherworldly
El Greco paintings still feel otherworldly four centuries later. Step into the elongated Christs and saints of his mystical Toledo.
15 Famous Mary Magdalene Paintings of Repentance and Grace
No subject has inspired more Mary Magdalene paintings across the history of art than the moment between sin and salvation,…
The Assumption of the Virgin Paintings: 10 Masterpieces You Need to Know
Assumption of the Virgin paintings hold a singular place in Christian art. Few subjects called on painters to reach higher,…
Agony in the Garden Paintings: 10 Masterworks That Capture Christ’s Last Night
Of all the scenes in the Passion of Christ, Agony in the Garden paintings occupy a singular place in the…
8 Famous Resurrection Paintings That Shaped Christian Art
The Invisible Moment: How Painters Faced the Resurrection Of all the subjects in Christian art, the Resurrection is the most…
Saint John the Baptist Paintings: 10 Masterpieces Across Five Centuries
The Prophet Before the Messiah: Why Artists Never Stopped Painting Saint John the Baptist No saint in Western art history…