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.

We Are All Cleophas   Henry Ossawa Tanner († 1937), an African American, was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, three years before the abolition of

This stained-glass window was produced at the very end of the 13th century for the Cistercian abbey in Altenberg, not far from Cologne in Germany. The

“For all of us, may the Jubilee be an opportunity to be renewed in hope!” (Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee Year 2025). Among the