As Christians worldwide prepare to commemorate the most sacred day in the Christian calendar, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has unveiled a poignant reminder of the reason for the season ...

The work on the Santa Trinita Altarpiece (Deposition from the Cross) (1429-32) was completed ahead of a major exhibition on the Italian painter, due to open at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi in ...

However the model's pose strongly corresponds with the positioning of Christ's body in scenes of his deposition from the cross and it is possible Etty intended this work to be a preliminary study ...