Art

The artist James Ensor had a wicked sense of humor and was obsessed with religious imagery. View slide show.

Eugne Delacroixs religious paintings were informed by the Romantic penchant for introspection.

“Even people only casually involved with contemporary art tend to bookmark memories by their first encounter with William Kentridge.

The Easter hope of Maurice Denis’s ‘Three Marys’

If Jesus were a gardener, what kind of garden would he plant?

How can the artist’s simple portraits and still lifes possibly affect us as deeply as they do?

An Easter reflection on Fontana’s ‘Noli Me Tangere’

Gerrit van Honthorst’s painting The Mocking of Christ is a painful reminder of the cruel, sardonic mocking of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

In this Lenten season, Stanley Spencer’s Christ Carrying the Cross seems to transcend its time.

Both the hard facts and the fanciful legends about Patrick have the power to fascinate and instruct.