DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against.

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) 'Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation' at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the largest of three U.S. exhibits celebrating the upcoming 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Why after the Protestant Reformation, where language (95 theses, in fact!) had been used to contest Catholicism, did the Church turn to art to recapture the essentials of the faith?

In How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art, American-born art historian extraordinaire Elizabeth Lev (you haven’t quite seen the art of Rome ...

At least 14 local Lutheran artists will be displaying and selling their artwork at the Reformation 500 Art Event from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at Faith Lutheran Church, 1716 S.W. Gage. Also on… ...

Counter-Reformation artist Carlo Dolci is finally getting his due, with a solo show — his first in the U.S. — at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The deeply Catholic Baroque master ...

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) >> When it came to art, Martin Luther was much more interested in music than in the visual arts. He once called music “half a sacrament” and said, “Next to… ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg, Germany’s Castle Church, ushering in a revolt against the Roman Cath… ...