Weeks have elapsed, and I’m still trying to figure out what happened when I visited the ­Matisse Chapel in Vence, France — why I responded as I did. Mystified, I keep coming back to the ...

The chapel is important too because it hints at some of the complexities inherent in Matisse’s work. “There’s a tension in the chapel; it leads a double life,” Paton says.

Sister Jacques-Marie, a Dominican nun whose friendship with artist Henri Matisse led him to create the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, died Monday. She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a ...

Matisse’s involvement with the chapel grew out of a friendship with his former nurse and model Monique Bourgeois, whom he met for the first time in September 1942, when she was 21.

Once, Sister Jacque-Marie mentioned to Matisse her order's dream of a new chapel. Four years later, the Chapelle du Rosaire des Dominicaines de Vence, perched above the French Mediterranean coast ...

Henri Matisse’s greatest masterpiece resides not in a gallery, but on a peaceful hillside near Nice: a chapel he designed in gratitude to the nun who helped him through a troubled convalescence ...

Artist Henri Matisse’s Chapelle du Sainte Marie du Rosaire in the pretty 15th-century hilltown of Vence and Jean Cocteau’s Chapelle Saint-Pierre near the waterfront of Villefranche-sur-Mer.

Jesus' Parable of the Mustard Seed, with its imagery of a seed growing into a plant big enough for birds to perch in, is often seen as foretelling the growth of Christianity. Arguably the greatest ...

The Color of Light, premiering on April 4th, brings to light a little-known story: Henri Matisse set aside his lifelong atheism to help-and to honor-the young nun who gave him a new reason to live.