On the wall of monastic cell 32 of San Marco Convent, in Florence, the Dominican friar Guido di Pietro (c. 1395–1445)—called Fra Angelico—painted a fresco

This beautiful miniature introduces chapter 30 of a richly illuminated manuscript produced in the Île de France around the year 1410. The text, in French,

Fray Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627) lived in Toledo, Spain, ­until the age of forty-three. In that city he was an esteemed painter. There he met

A painter of icons from the Island of Crete, El Greco (1541–1614) arrived in Venice at the age of twenty-seven and grew close to Tintoretto

An exact contemporary of Claude Monet (1840–1926) and the impressionists, Ferdinand Roybet (1840–1920) was, in those days, the leading master of historical painting. He was

On the cover of this issue of Magnificat we meet again an artist who is already familiar to us, Jean Bourdichon (1457–1521). His exquisite miniature

Guido Reni (1575–1642), nicknamed “the divine Guide,” was most sought-after artist in Europe during the first half of the 17th century, and the one whose

On July 25, we celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the conclusion of the first ecumenical council in history. Convoked in Nicaea in 325 by the

Joachim von Sandrart was born in 1606 in Frankfurt, to a ­family originally from Hainaut in Northern France. After Dürer, he is indisputably the greatest

Francisco Camilo (1615–1673) is one of the brilliant stars in the ­constellation of artists that lit up the firmament of the Spanish Golden Age (c.