Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ ...

Images of Christ often represented prevailing cultural beliefs, allowing onlookers to connect in a deep and meaningful way.

A rare oil painting by the Russian artist Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927), part of a series titled ‘The Life of Christ,’ will take center stage at Bonhams’ upcoming 19th-century and British ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the ...

James McNeill Whistler, “An Orange Note: Sweet Shop,” 1883 or 1884. (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer) James McNeill Whistler ...

If Americans have learned to make constitutional mountains out of religious molehills ... for the claim of the television evangelist D. James Kennedy, who cited the small American Jewish ...

James I and the Religious Culture of England' is a study of King James's influence, both direct and indirect, on various aspects of religious life in England during his reign; James emerges as more ...