In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one ...

Abraham’s ultimate call from God was to sacrifice his son Isaac. God had promised to bring him descendants “as numerous as the sands on the seashore” through Isaac. This contrast must have ...

For Haywood, finding balance in his art is an integral part of his process ... And that's what painting is for me trying to uncover this abstract image that resonates emotionally with me.

Isaac Levitan, founder of the genre of the “mood landscape,” is one of the greatest artists of Russia.  He was born in a ...

Léa reaches for a biblical story, the binding of Isaac. As they stand outside ... for God’s seemingly sadistic command that Abraham sacrifice his son. This was done, she argues, not to test ...

my friend in Tel Aviv said, referring to the famous scene in the Bible, known as the binding of Isaac, when Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son. In Israel, the mere mention of a biblical name ...

Clare Ford-Wille revels in the frosty results. Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music. The most ...

The Berlin Gemäldegalerie is presenting 60 works by European painters from the 16th to 19th centuries from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art.

I had made her tea. Not just any tea, proper nduvia chai with cardamom pods, ginger slivers and a touch of milk froth, boiled with reverence in my ancient aluminium sufuria. As the tea brewed, the ...

American history enthusiasts were in for a treat when artifacts relating to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln—including his personal possessions, autograph letters, rare copies of printed works ...

46 x 38 cm. (18.1 x 15 in.) ...