VATICAN CITY — Italian painter Gaetano Previati in 1902 completed a series of large oil paintings of Jesus’ passion, death and burial. Titled “The Passion,” the 14 paintings, which measure ...

MADRID – A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched $1,421 on eBay. The closing price ...

For almost 50 years, an oil sketch depicting Jesus on the cross was thought to be, in the words of art historian Horst Gerson, a “crude imitation” of the work of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ...

The 9-by-12-inch oil painting is on an oval-shaped wooden board and depicts the resurrected Jesus ... The repatriation of a stolen Polish oil painting depicting Jesus ascending into heaven.

Like much previous Christian art, the emphasis remained on Jesus’ victory over death rather than any desire to depict the reality or violence of his crucifixion.

Rogier van der Weyden’s 15th-century painting of a lifeless Jesus surrounded by mourners ... 1/2 feet wide, the oil-on-panel work ... from Pontius Pilate to remove Jesus from the cross.

MIDDLETOWN — It may have taken three days for Jesus to rise from the dead, but it took less than 24 hours for a painting of his crucifixion to return after it mysteriously disappeared from a ...

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.

The controversy over the Rabbi Jesus paintings briefly on display at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center this past weekend boils down to perception of what's appropriate.

The debate over the color of Jesus’ skin is one of the oldest running arguments in religion. But this Easter, the question is a serious one — for several reasons.

Look at each painting and you will see that one of Jesus’ limbs is circled in gold. This circle corresponds to one of the levers on the main painting. There is one next to each of his hands ...