The Surrealist's 'Christ of Saint John on the Cross' was controversial for many reasons. Salvador Dalí in his studio in Port Lligat with his painting Christ of St John on the Cross in 1951. Photo by ...

'Christ on the Cross' was authenticated through microscopic examination of the paint layers AP Photo/Michel Euler Peter Paul Rubens' Christ on the Cross, a painting completed in 1613, has been sold ...

"Mount Calvary" (a painting by William H. Johnson, ca. 1944/ Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation) In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the ...

For all of our lives, we Catholics have been gazing at Crucifixes. We see them at home, in school, at the hospital, in movies, and in our Churches. Many different presentations of Christ on the cross ...

Today is Good Friday, and Christians around the world are marking the occasion with fasting and prayer, many devoting themselves to the Stations of the Cross, which commemorate the suffering and death ...

Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, a work newly attributed to Greek painter El Greco Courtesy of CAEM Known for his elongated renderings of the human body and innovative use of color, El Greco is ...

March 30, 2006 — -- Was Christ crucified upside down with his feet nailed to the top of the cross, his head toward the ground? Or was he not even nailed, but instead lashed to the cross with ...