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The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent’s* symbolic ...

To “read” the history of times before writing, scholars have traditionally used excavated evidence. Remains like dwellings, burials and pots can reveal a lot about how people lived long ago. In ...

Cover of Erika Doss's Spiritual Moderns featuring Agnes Pelton's "Sand Storm" (1929) (image courtesy University of Chicago Press) Religion influenced modern art's development far more than most ...

In his gripping and essential new book “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie captures a pivot point in 20th century social history, when certain ideas about religion, art and sex in the ’80s crashed headlong ...

Composite image: Drawing of Jesus (Wikimedia); Bobblehead figurine of Jesus are featured in this undated photo from the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee (CNS photo/courtesy ...