The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers, were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers as the white smoke billowed into the air. It meant the winner secured at ...

All eyes were on the smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel on May 8 as 133 cardinals voted to select the successor to Pope ...

The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers. The name will be announced later, when a top cardinal utters the words “Habemus papam!” Latin for “We have a pope!” ...

Painted around 1510, the mysterious altarpiece by an unknown artist features unusual details, including a slobbering dragon ...

He distrusts her but falls in love, moping about the Kildares’ castle where Harkin shows off her lyrical gifts: “He’s alone in the cloister. A fine rain is coming down, drifting through the ...

Set in a lovely park overlooking the Hudson River, the Cloisters houses the Met’s medieval art and architecture ... century Fuentidueña Chapel, and the Annunciation Triptych by Robert Campin.

In this story, Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran migrant mistakenly deported to his native country despite having a court order prohibiting his removal from the United States, is David, and Goliath ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...

Artist Mariel Capanna works within the context of memory. Her art, whether through oil paintings or more recently frescos, reflects a perspective of memory but through different lenses. “Mariel ...