She found out via email. In late November, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha was sitting at her computer when a message popped up on her screen. It contained two images. One of them was of ...
ST. LOUIS — The image glows 30 feet away. Up close, its gold embellishment is meant to awe, and reflect, an onlooker. Using techniques hundreds of years old, a handmade Bible brings an ancient ...
“Ecce Homo: Behold the Man,” an expansive new exhibition at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., explores how artists have interpreted the Passion of Christ over the past five centuries. The ...
A display from The St. John’s Bible, a hand-crafted, illuminated manuscript created by a team of artists and calligraphers, now on view year-round at St. John’s University in Collegeville.
(RNS) — In 2015, Montreal-based artist Guy Laramée placed a large-format Bible from the 19th century upright with the spine open. Then, using a power grinder, he carved a landscape into the pages and ...
The Bible was commissioned by Borso D’Este, who became duke of Ferrara in northeastern Italy in the mid-1400s. Borso enlisted ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The irreverent, candy-colored, comic-book-style biblical paintings of Archie Rand, presidential professor of art at Brooklyn College in New York, are a hoot - and that's exactly what ...
As Winchester Cathedral sends its lavishly illuminated 12th-century bible on an overseas journey during renovations at home (the book arrived in New York this week, for an exhibition at the ...
With the release of the movie Noah a couple of weeks away, the waters of controversy are already rising fast. I've seen the movie's final cut, and director Darren Aronofsky's re-envisioning of the ...
The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...