Rome has Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Venice has the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, an imposing 16th-century structure in the city’s San Polo district decorated with a series of more than 50 ...
It is no easy task to convert catastrophe into beauty, especially in the visual arts. With brushes and palette alone, can a painter confer upon the tragedy of Christ’s death sadness rather than horror ...