The altar panel of St. Clare in Assisi One painting is often reproduced in practically all guidebooks of any language on Assisi – one that little attention has been paid, and is usually outshadowed by the San Damiano Cross. It is the altar panel on the right transept of the Basilica of St...

Hind site is always 20/20. Looking back on history, especially the history of painting, one can decipher a great deal about the time it was painted in and the changes in those times. One can understand the value systems, the ethics, government, morality, economics and personal lives of the times r...

"The Shroud of Turin is either the most awesome and instructive relic of Jesus Christ in existence.... or it is one of the most ingenious, most unbelievably clever, products of the human mind and hand on record; there is no middle ground." (John Walsh, The Shroud, 1963) The Shro...