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‘Census at Bethlehem,’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1526/1530-1569, Dutch. (Wikimedia Commons)

Four artworks that can change how we see Christmas

Elizabeth Lev|Dec 9, 2025|6 Min Read

“The Monk by the Sea,” by Caspar David Friedrich, 1774–1840, German. (Wikimedia Commons)

The vindication of Caspar David Friedrich

Elizabeth Lev|Sep 9, 2024|7 Min Read

Detail of the outside of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France. (

An atheist’s chapel in France

Elizabeth Lev|Aug 17, 2023|5 Min Read

Natalia Tsarkova

Is a new renaissance in Catholic art in the making?

Elizabeth Lev|Feb 16, 2023|6 Min Read

“Nativity of Christ” mid-16th century, from the village of Trushevychi, artist unknown. Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lyiv.

Finding hope amid war in Ukraine’s Christmas art

Elizabeth Lev|Dec 19, 2022|6 Min Read

Michelangelo’s “Pietà.” (Shutterstock)

Easter through her eyes: Art that exalts the women of the Resurrection

Elizabeth Lev|Apr 14, 2022|5 Min Read

An oil on panel entitled "Allegorical Portrait of Dante, late 16th century" is seen in this undated photo. Dante's "Divine Comedy" is perhaps the most powerful depiction of the transcendent in Western literature. (CNS photo/Samuel H. Kress Collection via National Gallery of Art)

The Year of Dante: A chance to make language great again?

Elizabeth Lev|Aug 23, 2021|6 Min Read

“The Dream of St. Joseph,” by Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779. (Wikimedia Commons)

The many faces of St. Joseph, Christianity’s diamond in the rough

Elizabeth Lev|Mar 18, 2021|7 Min Read

"Ecce Homo" before and after Cecilia Giménez's 2012 attempted restoration of the fresco. (Wikimedia Commons)

How the ‘Chapucismo’ movement endangers fine art

Elizabeth Lev|Dec 30, 2020|5 Min Read

Pope Francis prays in front of the Marian icon "Salus Populi Romani" at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome March 15. According to legend, late in the 6th century Pope Gregory I had the icon carried through the streets of Rome in prayer that the Black Plague would end, and in 1837, Pope Gregory XVI prayed before the image for an end to a devastating cholera outbreak. (Vatican Media)

Faith

What the Catholic Church knows about charity in the time of pandemic

Elizabeth Lev and Thomas D. Williams|Mar 17, 2020|9 Min Read

“The Miraculous Draught of Fishes” (1515), one of the seven remaining “Raphael Cartoons” for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum). (Wikimedia Commons)

Celebrating the genius of Raphael, 500 years later

Elizabeth Lev|Feb 13, 2020|5 Min Read

The damaged roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is pictured April 16

After a devastating fire, can new builders reclaim Notre Dame’s transcendence?

Elizabeth Lev|Apr 29, 2019|7 Min Read

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