Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

The Wilshere Collection offers a remarkable insight into one Englishman's enthusiasm for the early Christian church. A wealthy landowner travelling...

In 1908, an idea arose during a conversation between Dr Felix Peipers and Rudolf Steiner. Steiner had been lecturing on the healing nature of the E...

All 150 passages from the Book of Psalms, which is revered in many sects of Judaism and Christianity and is one of the best known, most beautifully...

Although the artist Sadequain was commonly regarded as a modernist, the author, who is well known as an art critic and connoisseur, suggests that h...

Creation: A Celebration depicts the story of Genesis in a stunningly beautiful and imaginative combination of painting and needlework. It is not so...

Who is depicted in that stained glass window? What is the significance of those geometric figures? Why are there fierce-looking beasts carved amids...

Making Sense of Christian Art & Architecture is designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each paintin...

Making Sense of Islamic Art & Architecture is designed to equip the cultural tourist and art student with the means to interpret each painting,...

Italy in the thirteenth century was transformed by two new religious orders, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. Whereas earlier religious orders h...

In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later end...

Bring on the doodles! Zen doodle, that is! In Zen Doodle: Tons of Tangles, you'll find gorgeous images of the best doodle art from around the world...

Pandemonium: An Illustrated History of Demonology presents for this first time Satans family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow f...