Saying arrivederci to Roma is seldom easy. The endlessly absorbing Eternal City has undergone an urban renaissance of late, ...

And after that, cross the street to peruse the collection at Kimbell Art Museum, then head up to the nearby Amon Carter Museum of American Art.ks at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

If one were asked to name the time, place and person that can be identified with the suppression of the role of women in the early Christian church then: The time was 591 C.E. The place was Rome. The ...

She has been the subject of countless paintings, frescoes, and even a few films – but what did Mary Magdalene really look like? That seems to be a question director Mel Gibson has been struggling to ...

The renowned The Passion of the Christ’s sequel has an entirely new cast. Director Mel Gibson has re-cast Jesus and Mary Magdalene for The Resurrection of the Christ, the follow-up to 2004’s The ...

Source: Melissa Rampelli, personal photograph, 2025 Calm and contemplative, Mary Magdalene reclines on a floor of packed dirt and stone, propping herself up on her right elbow, temple cradled in palm, ...

For a fairly minor biblical character, Mary of Magdala, aka Mary Magdalene, sure gets a lot of attention — and not necessarily without good reason. Warren Buffett suggests all parents do one thing ...

Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Christ near the empty tomb is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Today is ...

After the 2020 Port of Beirut explosion, Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Hercules and Omphale’ became the focus of an extraordinary three-year conservation effort that demanded both scientific precision and ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided for the Apostles out of her own resources. A Renaissance (c. 1524) ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured by glass and coated in debris during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, the monumental oil-on-canvas, painstakingly restored over more ...