Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

“The basic problem facing Black people is their powerlessness,” he once said.

As protests, many of them violent, continue to shake the Muslim world in the wake of depiction of Muhammad in a series of cartoons, two religious scholars discuss the use of religious imagery in ...

One Loveland artist has spent the last decade writing biblical figures into art through the classic practice of iconography. Barbara Heller, who has lived in Loveland since the early ’80s, now works ...

In recent years, there has been an effort by Christians of different stripes to “put Christ back in Christmas.” Noting the ubiquity of the anodyne phrase “happy holidays” – even when a holiday (or ...

For as long as artists have been producing art, religious iconography has been a mainstay. From the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, to the contemporary works of artists such as ...

Artistic expression has always held an important place throughout history. However, it is the expression of history that holds an important place in the works of Salt Lake City artist Olivia Celine ...

Romania's Orthodox Church said on April 29 that posters depicting nurses and doctors dealing with the coronavirus outbreak as saints were an insult to Christian iconography. The campaign is “marked by ...

The post Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on Heavy Sounds, Religious Iconography, and Constantine 2 appeared first on Consequence. The songwriter talks Coldplay, The Mars Volta, and Leonard Cohen, as well as his ...

Rev. Dr. J. Manning Potts of Nashville, Tenn., left, presents the 1957 Upper Room Award for World Christianity Fellowship to artist Warner Sallman of Chicago, Ill., at a dinner meeting of church and ...

Quincy, Massachusetts is facing a lawsuit over Mayor Koch's plan to install statues of Catholic patron saints at the new public safety headquarters. Residents argue the statues violate the state ...