Simon Vouet (1590–1649) is considered the most important French painter of the first half of the 17th century. Before returning to France in 1627, he spent a

In 1580, Saint Turibius became Archbishop of Lima (Peru), at that time the largest archdiocese in history, extending from Nicaragua to Tierra del Fuego. First he

September is back-to-school month, which means parish religious education programs are about to resume. Christian mothers in particular will be requested to assume with their

Juan Martin Cabezalero was born in 1645 (not in 1634 as indicated by the Prado Museum). Had it not been for his premature death in 1673,

At the age of twenty, in 1538, Jacopo Robusti (c. 1518–1594)—nicknamed Tintoretto—set up his studio in Venice, in the San Polo district, beside the Grand Canal.

James Ensor (1860–1949) joined or even anticipated all the ­pictorial movements of his time, from impressionism to surrealism, by way of symbolism, fauvism, naturalism, and expressionism.

Giovanni di Benedetto (active c. 1350–1390) was a famous illuminator of manuscripts and painter of frescos. He was one of the masters of the studio

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610–1662), a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome, quickly became one of his chief collaborators, in the service of Pope Urban VIII.

This large-scale Byzantine icon (33″ x 26″) is preserved at Saint Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai, where it was probably painted in the early 13th century.

Rembrandt was his first name, van Rijn his surname. The ninth child of a Protestant miller and a Catholic mother, he would become in an