O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet… Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

The buyer sent the painting to Simon Gillespie Studio for a restoration, where it was confirmed that the 17th-century woman was indeed the artist behind the work. Artemisia Gentileschi's David and ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against. DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Five ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” (1620-21). (Credit: Catholic News Agency.) Listen ROME –– Baroque Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi is hailed as a ‘feminist icon’ based on her ...

An image of the 16th century Council of Trent, which launched what came to be known as the Catholic Counter-Reformation. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen Among other things, 2017 marks the 500th ...

Phillip Campbell is a lay Catholic history teacher, author and editor of The Complete Works of St. Cyprian of Carthage (Arx Publishing). Mr. Campbell is best known for his Story of Civilization series ...

Of the writing (and publishing) of histories of the Protestant Reformation there is no end: almost a dozen Reformation histories have been published in English within the past decade or so, suggesting ...

For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter.