The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality and ...

Jesus Christ's betrayal, trial and crucifixion form the basis of the Christian Good Friday, which falls on the Friday before Easter. The famous story laid out in the Christian gospels tells of Jesus' ...

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was ...

Rome has Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Venice has the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, an imposing 16th-century structure in the city’s San Polo district decorated with a series of more than 50 ...

In a tweet shared after the announcement, the rapper dismissed the idea that he’s mocking Jesus, writing, “the crazy thing is nowhere in the picture is a mockery of jesus. Jesus’s image is used ...

“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

For centuries, artists of all kinds - from Michelangelo to Martin Scorsese, Salvador Dali to Damien Hirst and Andrew Lloyd Webber to Monty Python - have attempted to convey the meaning of the ...

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen (1420s) “sets the sort of model that he was to follow” for such compositions ...

Images of Jesus on the cross no longer command auction prices. Paintings and sculptures of what may be the most iconic scene in the history of art—the crucifixion of Jesus—are no longer commanding the ...

A caricature of Jesus as a dashboard toy maintains the beard and long hair of more traditional depictions(DigitalAlexander; Flickr.com/CC/by-nc-nd/2.0) The execution ...