Jesus’ parable in Luke’s Gospel masterfully illustrates three characters, the father and two sons, each of whom provides an ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

In the last decade, the Huqoq Excavation Project has found mosaics depicting Noah's Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and more ...

Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.

Artemisia Gentileschi once said, “My illustrious lordship, I’ll show you what a woman can do.” This bold statement documented in Bridget Quinn’s “Broad Strokes” encapsulates the fierce determination o ...

The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple ...

The larger-than-life oil painting ... ought to “fully appreciate Rembrandt’s brilliance and his ability to take these stories from the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Esther in particular ...

Rembrandt to Dora Maar, along with materials used to mimic vintage canvases, artist signatures, and the stamps of galleries no longer in operation. The suspect, who has yet to be apprehended ...

Rembrandt’s “Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,” the central painting, was completed when the artist was 27. While the identification with Esther is not entirely ironclad — the Jews have no ...

I choose the medium that speaks most clearly for the message I want to convey,” says Juliette. Earlier this year, Juliette created serpentine art to usher in the Lunar New Year. | IMAGES: NG KAI And ...

In galleries, you could see the queen, who Jews commemorate every Purim for her salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia, in paintings by Rembrandt, his pupils and contemporaries.

It’s a key, one explaining almost every element in the painting through referenced Bible verses. The skull, for instance, should be understood by Romans 5:12: “wherefore, as by one man sin ...