Having authored the “Saints and Art” series for more than a year, I would be remiss if I omitted my own patron, St. John the Evangelist.. Traditionally regarded as the author of the Fourth ...

A third Apostle, on Thomas’ right, looks at Jesus. I say this painting was “traditionally” thought to depict “Doubting Thomas,” because some contemporary art historians dispute that.

When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other ...