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A Long-Lost Painting from Botticelli’s Studio Is Rediscovered in a French Church
A painting long thought to be a 19th-century copy has been attributed to the studio of Botticelli and will be displayed ...
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How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman
The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...
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Gospel in Art: Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked
As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, 'Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you ...
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Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
Beauce, France, has long been home to a painting of the Virgin Mary, infant Jesus Christ, and young St. John the Baptist. The ...
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Xi, Mao and CCP slogans replace Jesus, Virgin Mary in China's churches
In a sweeping overhaul of religious spaces, Chinese authorities have replaced Christian symbols with images of Communist ...
Mary Statue Criticized And Vandalized: How Artists Have Often Reimagined Christ’s Birth
A sculpture of the Virgin Mary showing her giving birth to Jesus was recently attacked and beheaded. Called “Crowning” by the artist Esther Strauss, the sculpture had been part of a temporary ...
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A Long-Lost Painting from Botticelli’s Studio Is Rediscovered in a French Church
The overlooked work featured a tender scene of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ and ... the public can compare the two paintings in person at the “Botticelli: Two Madonnas at Chambord ...