Taken at “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800,” an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it depicts a statue of Madonna with Child in which the baby ...

Through Nativity art, the Word takes on flesh across diverse Eastern cultures. Jesus was born in Asia. He was Asian. Yet the preponderance of Christian art that shows him at home in Europe has meant ...

A statue of a baby Jesus in a Canadian church got an unexpected makeover, giving onlookers reason to do a double-take. And for good reason. It looks less like the son of Mary and more like the ...

As such, Judas and King Herod and eventually Pontius Pilate came to be represented in dark, sinister hues while Jesus became increasingly white. "The oldest basis of all Christian art is the clash of ...