Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that continue to inspire today. Read on.

Detective Chief Inspector Ben Wood, Senior Investigating Officer on this case, said: “We understand news of a murder arrest will cause considerable concern among the local community, and I want to ...

In honor of our mothers in this Bible study, we discuss three famous Jewish mothers whose miraculous babies impacted ... two miraculous births— Jesus and John the Baptist. Hannah’s prayer ...

Theologians historically referred to Jesus as a “mother”, and medieval artists often depicted the side wound on Christ’s body which some have interpreted to look like a vagina. (Getty) Reverend Dr ...

There are pictures of him hugging babies and embracing ... has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.” It was during Francis’s papacy that I came into full communion with the Catholic Church. Raised ...

at the Art Institute of Chicago holding a tooth long thought to belong to John the Baptist. John the Baptist was one of Jesus’ contemporaries in the 1 st century. The bible says John was ...

and John the Baptist. Look at that motherly hand the Virgin places on baby Jesus’s pudgy little arm. Despite the shadow of the great Leonardo, it is a fantastically accomplished painting.

History knows him as John the Baptist – a fisher of men, a voice in the wilderness, the baptizer of Jesus, and a pillar of the Christian faith. Though he met his end at the whim of a vengeful ...

Now look at Leonardo’s Burlington House cartoon with Jesus and John the Baptist. Do you see the finger again? These are not the only Leonardo/Baptist paintings with the pointing finger.

In a panel depicting the temptation of Christ, an enormous Jesus ... in the Art Institute of Chicago. Like an imprinted baby duck, I was taken by two small panels of Saint John the Baptist.