Recent archaeological excavations in Israel have revealed a rare find: early Christian art from around 1,500 years ago. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...
The story of Indian Christian art is often treated as a blank slate before the colonial era. The murals of Cheppad are the powerful, vivid rebuttal to that silence. The Wire is now on WhatsApp. Follow ...
Early Christian art often shows Jesus holding what looks like a wand. Modern viewers assume magic, but ancient audiences saw authority. The object mirrored symbols used by Roman leaders and biblical ...
This Christmas season, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly known as “the Met,” is displaying one of the oldest Madonna and Christ Child icons in existence along with other pieces of ...