We philosophers believe that there is something called ‘art’, which has an essence. And so our goal is to offer a general ...

Renaissance artists transformed the art world by pioneering techniques ... The Council of Trent was a major part of the ...

David Platzer on “Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

As Pierluigi Carofano points out, the composition and figures in this painting can be compared to works from Aurelio Lomi’s ...

The 17th century was a turbulent time in the history of Western civilization and Western art. As the high humanism of the Renaissance began to fade, a new religious intensity came into being with the ...

Young children more attentive to cartoons than textbooks exemplify the latter. Also, as during the Counter-Reformation, visual art and music can be effective with adults, even when other means have ...

This German monk shattered centuries of reverence and assumption, paved the way for a revolution in faith and forever divided the Christian world prompting the Counter-Reformation. People still ...

‘I have been waiting for an art historian to write this book. It is a well-considered, balanced, and evidence-based examination of the relationships between religious images and the ...

1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial ... Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance ...

Throughout art history, making copies of masterworks ... dramatic aesthetics promoted during the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Rubens’ religious compositions were meant to keep (and bring ...