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Lifelike Painted Statues Reanimate Museum Many Left for Dead

Avatar photo by Roko Rumora December 26, 2021December 27, 2021

The objects and artists in Gilded Figures are so well chosen and so carefully interpreted that each section challenges divisions and rejects easy tropes.

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Uffizi Gallery Director Asks That Religious Art Be Returned to Churches

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 3, 2020November 5, 2020

Eike Schmidt, who has led the museum since 2015, said that “devotional art was not born as a work of art but for a religious purpose.”

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The Last Tourist in Assisi

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

A writer reflects on Giotto, St. Francis, and what it means to have faith amid a pandemic.

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Crucified Stormtrooper Sculpture Removed from Historic London Church After Complaints

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 15, 2018

The sculpture featuring one of the iconic Star Wars henchmen was part of a charity auction exhibition at St. Stephen Walbrook.

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After Surviving a Fire, St. John the Divine’s 17th-Century Tapestries Return

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 15, 2017

After a catastrophic 2001 fire, the 17th-century Barberini tapestries have returned to view at Manhattan’s Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

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The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 6, 2017January 6, 2017

The ex-voto painting is a Catholic folk art tradition depicting individual misfortunes that were mollified by divine intervention.

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Divination, Geomancy, and the Supernatural in Islamic Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 24, 2016November 25, 2016

Over 100 rare objects from the 12th to 20th centuries are used to explore the role of the supernatural in Islamic art at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford.

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How Anamorphic Paintings Represented the Miracles of the Saints

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 8, 2016August 9, 2016

Which saint you see in this 17th-century painting depends on where you stand.

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Two Exhibitions Showcase the Bloody Relics of Hermann Nitsch’s Rituals

by Ann McCoy October 15, 2015October 15, 2015

Viewers may have seen similar Nitsch installations before, but it is important to re-experience his work, much of which has been long misunderstood by an art world dominated by political theory and formalism.

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An Altarpiece in Guatemala Gets a New Life

by Laura C. Mallonee July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

ANTIGUA, Guatemala — The Cathedral of San Francisco in the colonial town of Antigua, Guatemala, was first built by the Spanish in the 16th century, but it’s as alive today as a center of worship as it ever was.

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The Gore and Agony of New Baroque Sculptures at the Met

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 14, 2015July 17, 2015

Baroque Spanish sculpture was long considered gaudy and secondary to the paintings of the same era but that is changing.

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Light up a Lithophane, Reveal a Hidden 19th-Century Image

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 26, 2015May 27, 2015

Imperceptible in the light, only when illuminated by flame in the dark is a 19th-century lithophane image revealed.

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Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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