Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...

Spiritual and religious artwork hangs in the Springville Museum of Art for the 38th annual exhibition. Over 275 pieces were displayed. (Abi Falin Horspool) On Wednesday, Oct. 16, the Springville ...

Should Italian museums return works of Renaissance art to the churches for which they were originally made? Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, has been making that case—and ...

The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

In the same way that western music has its roots in religious tradition, the interconnectedness between religion and art has been symbiotic; both evolving codependently to reflect social, cultural, ...

The front entrance to the Springville Museum of Art. The museum is currently hosting its yearly exhibition highlighting spiritual and religious art in Utah. (Nathan Beitler) The Springville Museum of ...

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Edward Berger didn’t grow up Catholic. “I was raised outside the church, but if we went, it would be the Protestant Church,” he says over the phone. But when he was 9, he attended a Catholic Mass with ...

Within the field of Russian religious art, Russian icons hold a singular place within the country’s art historical traditions. First emerging in the 11th century, despite their significance they have ...

Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore. By Holland Cotter In 1983, at Japan ...