WASHINGTON (CNS) — This year’s winners of the Missionary Childhood Association’s annual Christmas artwork contest “are missionaries through their art, as their drawings proclaim the good news of Jesus’ birth,” said Msgr. Kieran E. Harrington, ...
"Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" and its 34 life-size reproductions is offering visitors an immersive look at the frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the chapel at the Vatican and took Michelangelo four years to ...
We all know Rome wasn't built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar. Working quietly in his Chicago-area home during the lull ...
The coronavirus crisis has inspired Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz to create — and motivated him to help. Even as the daily news quantified new cases and new deaths from COVID-19, Schmalz used an annual tradition, ...
When word came that Illinois residents were being asked to stay home and the Archdiocese of Chicago suspended public Masses in mid-March, Chicago-based iconographer Joseph Malham was at loose ends, like so many others. He ...
An artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael was on display for one week in the Sistine Chapel to help celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. "It's an important moment" and ...
Gretchen Crowe writes that one of the perks of working for a publishing company is the complimentary copy that each employee receives of every book that comes off the OSV presses. The result is that ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a world of different religions, cultures and languages, art has the capacity to bring people together and inspire them to take action in addressing critical challenges, said a Vatican official. ...
The beautiful portraits of children that Mary Burkett started drawing in January of 2017 are making an impact on people who see them, but it’s not just about the art. Yes, they are well done ...
“Catholic art provided a means to re-evangelize Reformation-torn Europe with beauty and provided clarity to Church teaching amid chaos.” This is the assertion made by Elizabeth Lev, an American-born, well-known art historian, expert, international public ...
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