Here is a charming work by Murillo (1617–1682); it is little known because it belongs to a private collection. The Holy Family is depicted in

Giovanni Battista Tinti (1558–1617) was an Italian mannerist painter who settled in Parma. He was one of the artists who best understood and translated into

“Let him who is thirsty come!” The Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice—consecrated in 1094—was erected to house the relics of Saint Mark that were

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