Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

Cicero Moraes/Pen News Mr Moraes believes that the shroud may have been created as a work of Christian art to inspire believers, but he doubts that it ever touched the body of Christ. He said ...

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

That’s just Christ, though: deity and man, weightless word converted to meat. Other, similar paradoxes make for a painting of hypnotic weirdness. Are we looking at perfection or sin? A stately ...

Discover how making Monty Python's Life of Brian led filmmaker Julian Doyle on a quest to unravel fact from fiction about the ...

It has also unveiled its range of Christmas stamps, one of which includes a 17th-century Italian painting of Christ and the Madonna, and four others inspired by Mexican folk art. Mailrooms began ...

Image Simone Martini’s gold-leaf “Christ Discovered in the Temple,” from “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350” at the Met.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times Pietro and ...

The Women’s City Club of Haverhill will hold a meeting and luncheon with entertainment for its members at noon Tuesday at the Advent Christian Church, 160 Carleton St.

By Annabel Keenan This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries ... from the collection into virtual puzzles that students must solve ...

The piece, thought to be from a choral book from the city of Siena, has been in the CMA collection since 1952.

She’s a real Vincent van Go-bot. In a first for Sotheby’s, the famed auction house will sell a painting made by a humanoid robot — and it’s expected to fetch up to a whopping $180,000.

The free and open to the public 76th Pilgrim Place Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday, November 9, at 625 Mayflower Rd., Claremont. Visit pilgrimplace.org/festival for info.