After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

She identified herself to the four girls and two boys as the ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

A long-lost Cimabue panel discovered on a kitchen wall north of Paris in 2019 is at the heart of a landmark exhibition on the Florentine master, which opens at the Louvre on Wednesday, showcasing ...

The Virgin and Child with Angels by a Fountain, Bernaert Van Orley (1492-1541) There are basically two traditions of the Annunciation ... the library of the government in Bamberg, Germany. The Madonna ...

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Another legend relates that Helleborus niger, the Christmas rose, miraculously appeared when an angel's wings swept the ground in order ... statuary figures of the Virgin Mary or Virgin with Child, ...

Our painting by Lorenzetti originally decorated the altar of St Crescentius in the magnificent Cathedral of Siena. It depicts ...

While the theatrical cut of Aliens is still excellent, the Cameron-approved two ... Madonna, and Sepultura. Countless illustrators, filmmakers, and musicians have been taken with its stylised, art ...