So the beautiful sacred art and liturgy is essential to the faith. We know from a historical perspective, over 2,000 years of the history of the Catholic Church, there has never been a time when ...

Museums are great levelers. Inside their walls, narratives, portraits, icons and altarpieces become paintings; crucifixes, totems and temple gods become sculptures; sacred objects, out of context ...

St. Ignatius and devotion to the Sacred Heart focus on Jesus as friend and the Eucharist as a means to deeper communion with him and others. More frequent encounters with the Eucharist, through ...

The Catholic Art Institute is a Chicago-based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of traditional sacred art. From classes and artists’ workshops, to lectures, online competitions, musical ...

The sacred art of the written word By Katherine Stephen. Jan. 17, 2002, 12:01 p.m. ET To the ...

Islamic sacred art takes a different route. It reaches past the physical restraints that bind us to this world, subordinating them to higher forms of being, to acknowledge a God who is as imperative ...

The famous bust of Nefertiti is an example of this kind of art, which marked a departure from traditional ritual forms in favor of a more naturalistic, human approach. The Nefertiti Bust, 1352–1332 BC ...

Islam is an iconoclastic religion in a literal sense — it forbids depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. This ban may have been the cause of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's pulling of images of ...

Instead, Kozhan and his employees met to formulate a strategy to protect the museum’s 1,800 objects on display—Ukrainian modern art, illuminated manuscripts and sacred icons spanning 800 years.