In suffering for our sins, Jesus is teaching us, showing us graphically just how hateful, destructive, violent and malicious ...

Popular in medieval representations of the crucifixion, sun and moon stress the cosmological or universal importance of redemption. They also point to Old (moon) and New Testament (sun). Sun and moon ...

Pontius Pilate – the Roman governor of Judaea and the man who ordered the crucifixion – was ordered home in disgrace. By executing Jesus, the Romans had kick-started a brand new religion that ...

The Shroud of Turin, which many believe was the burial cloth used to cover Jesus Christ, has been the subject of much ...

Pontius Pilate is inextricably connected with the prosecution and trial of Jesus Christ. His later life has been subject to ...

Museum staff are raising funds to buy a painting of the Crucifixion by the Renaissance Master Fra Angelico dating to the 1420s. Due to its cultural and art historical importance, the painting ...

The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as ...

But the oddest thing to me is that beside the door above the fireplace, where coals lie unlit that June morning, is a ...

In 2016, the French government returned a 16th-century Flemish portrait and a painting of the crucifixion to Bromberg's ...

Franciscans around the world commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Sept. 17, ...

Bernard Coffindaffer, a native of Craigsville, Nicholas County, West Virginia, began erecting sets of three crosses in ...

Tracey Emin is not scared of dying. She came close to it four years ago when she was diagnosed with squamous cell bladder ...