If you liked this story, share it with other people. Emmanuel de Merode, Director of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believes that conservation can succeed only—and ...

For this year’s Lent, I set out to pray the Angelus in the morning, at noon, and at night; a practice that, of course, has long been part of Catholic piety. In my adult life, I’ve had ups and downs in ...

Nuns sold off the ‘Colonna Altarpiece’ bit by bit. Now the Met has put it back together. Raphael’s first altarpiece was disassembled in the 17th century and sold off piece by piece. The Metropolitan ...

I first discovered Portrait of Cléo de Mérode on the BCMA’s web kiosk as a curatorial assistant in the summer of 2024. At that time, the cabinet card was named Profile Portrait of a Woman after its ...

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With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week ...

Day trips offer a satisfying sweater-weather getaway for time- and budget-squeezed travelers. Here are five single-day sojourns to try less than three hours' driving distance from Long Island that ...

How art testifies to the incredible truth of Christ with us. In my art history classroom, I dim the lights and turn on the projector. The image pools on the screen at the front of the room. The ...

God granted a saint’s wish: to die as a martyr. A killer painted the moment. There’s a lot to be mesmerized by in this almost eight-foot-high depiction of the crucifixion of Saint Andrew — one of the ...

“Imagine if a composer of complex symphonies, or a writer of novels, suddenly stopped work while at the top of their game.” A hypothetical Beethoven calling it quits just before his Fifth Symphony; a ...

Exclusive: Cambridge academic’s study of surviving letters shows pay row with wealthy patron The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron after a bitter row over pay by placing ...