After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...
Megawati presented a painting of the Virgin Mary to Pope Francis at the Vatican, where they discussed global warming and ...
This embracing posture was a customary way of embodying the intimate, familial relationship between mother and child in late medieval works. Her dual roles as both virgin and mother distinguish Mary ...
The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...
It actually comes straight from Botticelli’s studio. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and a young St. John the Baptist holding the infant Christ, and it’s been in the possession of the St ...
Black Madonna is a term used to describe images of the Virgin ... Mary—a highly contentious issue in some quarters of the Catholic Church. There are numerous examples of icons, paintings ...