DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against. DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Five ...

Timken Museum of Art presents a virtual lecture: The term 'Catholic Counter-Reformation Art' describes the more stringent, doctrinal style of Christian art developed during the period c.1560-1700, in ...

St. Boniface, who lived on the bridge between the 7th and 8th centuries, is honored as the “Apostle of Germany” because of his work in Christianizing the pagans of those lands. St. Peter Canisius ...

NEW YORK — As the Catholic Church struggled to recover from the tumultuous effects of the Protestant Reformation, art historian Elizabeth Lev believes that it was the Church’s embrace of art that ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg, Germany’s Castle Church, ushering in a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church.