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Christ at center of Spanish sculptor’s art

For the first time, the work of celebrated Spanish sculptor Alonso Berruguete is being featured at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

1/10/20

For the Catholic Herald

‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’

2/11/20

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Painted prayers: Reston mural celebrates Salesian spirituality

For Brother Michael O’Neill McGrath, painting is prayer. For years, the artist and author, known as “Brother Mickey,” has been sharing his images of saints and their famous sayings in books and retreats, as well as on prayerful greeting cards illuminated with brightly colored birds and flowers.

2/5/20

Leslie Miller | Special to the Catholic Herald
‘The most beautiful head of the Savior’

When Andrea del Verrocchio’s bronze sculpture of “Christ and St. Thomas” was installed in its niche overlooking a busy street in Florence in 1483, it so awed the Florentines that one writer hailed it as “the most beautiful head of the Savior ever made.” More

11/7/19

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

Churches that point to God

Fr. Planty speaks about the elements that give beauty to sacred architecture.More

8/28/19

Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

New Mexico’s St. Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine honors patron saint of Native Americans

A new shrine in Gallup, N.M., being dedicated to St. Kateri Tekakwitha, was designed by local Catholic architect Erik Bootsma.More

8/22/19

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

A photographic and artistic adventure in Italy

Catholic Herald Production Coordinator Stacy Rausch took a solo trip through the Italian countryside - making art and photographing her experiences in Rome, Ischia di Castro, Orvieto, Assisi and Florence.More

7/26/19

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Da Vinci's 'St. Jerome' painting on loan to the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the larger-than-life Italian Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.More

7/17/19

By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service

Our Lady inspires Fairfax woman to pick up painting

The Korean-American grandmother of 13 has taken up not only Byzantine iconography but oriental-style painting, too. More

7/8/19

Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

Friendship inspires sawdust art

Alfo-Conce — an ever-expanding group of artisans from Guatemala with a knack for creating beautiful religious iconography out of sawdust — began prep work for their Holy Week art during a meetup in Arlington March 30.More

4/8/19

George Goss | Catholic Herald Multimedia Journalist

Tintoretto, Renaissance artist of charity

The San Trovaso “Last Supper” is one of 46 paintings and 10 drawings in the exhibition: “Tintoretto, Artist of Renaissance Venice,” on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through July 7. The painting, which once faced Tintoretto’s “Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet,” a masterpiece now in the National Gallery of London, is very difficult to see in the dark, narrow chapel.More

3/29/19

Nora Hamerman | Special to the Catholic Herald

Watercolors to welcome spring

St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax welcomes spring with an art class on floral watercolor painting March 7. The event is part of a series organized by the parish’s Women’s Group, which provided art classes by a local artist and parishioner throughout the winter. COURTESY More

3/14/19

Artist Betsy Farr harmonizes faith and flora

In a tiny basement workroom in Manassas, botanical artist Margaret Elizabeth “Betsy” Farr blends the flora of Northern Virginia with images of saints from across the globe to create unique religious imagery. Surrounded by 19th-century Catholic lithographs while listening to choral work, such as Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, Farr paints with watercolor on 140-pound Fabriano cotton paper, frequently including metal leaf.More

3/5/19

Zita B. Fletcher | Catholic Herald Multimedia Journalist

An artist’s pilgrimage with Mary

I’ve recently returned from a pilgrimage with Our Lady of Guadalupe. It did not involve traveling to Mexico however. Rather, it was an artistic pilgrimage that took place in the basement of my parents’ home, where for the past six years, I have worked to create a life-size paper mosaic of Our Lady. More

12/13/18

Ashleigh Kassock | Catholic Herald Multimedia Designer

Russian art on display at the Vatican

In another example of the "diplomacy of art," the Vatican inaugurated a landmark exhibit of "spiritual" masterpieces from Moscow's famed Tretyakov Gallery and other state galleries in Russia.More

11/28/18

By CAROL GLATZ | Catholic News Service

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