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This work-one of the most important Northern Baroque paintings in the United States-is a strikingly sensitive vision of physical suffering. The third-century Saint Sebastian, shot with arrows by his fellow guardsmen for having converted to…

Heinrich Joest was a German Army sargeant during WWII and took picture of life behind the Warsaw Ghetto walls on his birthday in 1941. He kept the pictures he took, like this one, to himself until 1988, when he met Guenther Schwarberg, a reporter for…

Hams Khamis, a student at the American University of Cairo, interviewed her mother as part of our projects on well-being.

"David” by Bernini is a life-size marble sculpture depicting the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, whom he then beheads. Compared to earlier works on this subject such as the David of Michelangelo, the sculpture…

Christian imagery, especially the theatrically bloody martyrdoms that hang in Mexican churches, pervades Frida's iconography. Her house in Coyoacan displays a particularly gruesome Road to Calvary, in which the overemphasis on Christ's wounds seizes…

Auguste Rodin is arguably one of the most influential artists of the modern age, and produced a vast array of sculptures in plaster, marble, and bronze, as well as many drawings. His works are known for championing the ruggedness, strength, and…

In this masterful drawing by Filippino Lippi, Christ's body is supported on the edge of his tomb by a man (either Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus) while angels bearing the three nails and crown of thorns reverently support Christ's arms. The drawing…

Portrayal of life under the Siege of Leningrad by Russian born artist who completed his art degree during the siege.