In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and company were pretty brilliant at hiding secret messages in their paintings Finding secret messages in paintings There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark ...

The nativity scene, otherwise known as a Christmas crib, was first created by St Francis of Assisi in Italy in the year 1223. Over time, displaying it has become a yearly tradition for Catholics.

“The baby awakes / But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.” Countless paintings hang in museums showing the manger scene as peaceful, with Mary gazing beatifically at her calm, still baby.

Like the events it symbolises, the story of the nativity scene itself is one steeped in history. It is a tradition inspired by religious scripture and weaved over centuries with art, storytelling ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...

Przespolewski crafted his 1943 Nativity scene with a Mary clothed in Polish folk patterns and a winged hussar, a 16th-century Polish soldier clad in armor, protecting the family.

It is literally a nativity scene but all the figures are the characters portrayed as lobsters. Instead of a manger, all of the figures are situated within a lobster trap.

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter’s Square as a ...

This “adorable” scene, as described by Star Barn steward David Abel, is one of 100 Nativity scenes from around the world that is on display at the Vatican this Christmas.

The theft of Caravaggio’s nativity scene is one of art history’s most significant crimes. Caravaggio Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence (1609) Photo: wga.hu ...

Pope Francis: ‘Admirabile signum’ In his apostolic letter on the meaning and importance of the Nativity scene, Pope Francis writes, “The Magi teach us that people can come to Christ by a very long ...