The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

For centuries, Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence hung in a small Baroque chapel in Sicily—until a pair of art thieves absconded with the canvas in 1969. Now ...

On 18 October 1969, thieves cut the Caravaggio canvas from its frame with a razor ... while the actual fate of the Nativity remains shrouded in mystery. Pistoletto’s work in the oratory ...

Four-part drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable.

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It’s everyone’s favorite time of the week: family movie night. But what should you watch? A feel-good, kid-friendly animation ...

In South Goa, season time is well underway and festive trimmings are up. Nativity scenes bang in the middle of the rice paddy fields is not such an uncommon scene. The poder or local baker has ...

Sebastiano del Piombo, Ante d’organo con santi, open (1508; oil on canvas, each 293 x 137 cm; Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia) The volume takes what might be called a reformist approach. Combining ...

The stashed canvas is by emerging abstract artist Catherine ... Originally the “little saints” were Holy Family figures in church nativity displays, but when the French Revolution banned ...

Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...