While the U.S. is generally considered a highly religious nation, African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole, including level of ...

Rembrandt did religious pictures throughout his career. As it neared its end he favored "historicized portraits" of biblical characters — Jesus, his apostles, monks, saints — with the features ...

Religion in The Roman World An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review.

What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more ...

It looks as though a few religious reformers — in particular Girolamo Savonarola, the Florentine firebrand — began to be disgusted by the distracting realism of certain new sacred paintings ...

Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.

A religious teacher who served as a mentor to a 14-year-old student at the Islamic Center of Passaic County has been charged with molesting the teen and showing him a loaded gun, according to court ...

A number of paintings have been stolen from a village church. Officers are appealing to the public for help in tracing three religious paintings which were stolen from a church near Spilsby.

Agnieszka Pilat has begun her second artist residency at SpaceX, where she is completing a series of paintings based on a rocket hatch.

Nodding to the religious paintings of Michelangelo in her own creation stories, Rosales replaces those Christian visions of divinity, grace, beauty and vice with images and ideas drawn from the ...

In another portrait of Mary and Jesus, Chen adapted the halo — a radiant circle surrounding the head of a holy figure — with a Chinese flair. The halo is often found in religious paintings across ...