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.”
Fr. Planty speaks about the elements that give beauty to sacred architecture.
A new shrine in Gallup, N.M., being dedicated to St. Kateri Tekakwitha, was designed by local Catholic architect Erik Bootsma.
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
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
The Korean-American grandmother of 13 has taken up not only Byzantine iconography but oriental-style painting, too. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Catholicism adds color to Jason Bach’s artwork. More
“Heavenly Earth: Images of St. Francis at La Verna” at the National Gallery of Art gathers 29 seldom seen prints, drawings, books and a precious miniature, crowned by the oil painting “Francis in Prayer” (c. 1620) by Italian master Bernardo Strozzi, himself once a Franciscan priest. More