Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s Alonso ... snakes galvanized Renaissance artists, who superimposed its dynamic choreography of death and physical agony onto Christian subjects.

ImageIn the 17 th century, a loophole inserted into a Spanish anti-corruption edict led to the rise of some of the Renaissance ... the need for art to communicate the Christian message of ...

The 16th-century Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales ... the crown of thorns still dripping with blood. It was for such religious realism that led Morales to be known in his lifetime ...

Santiago, the Spanish name for St. James the Great, was one of the Twelve Apostles and was buried, according to tradition, in northwestern Spain. This powerful religious order had controlled ...

Those galleries are, of course, located in the Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The first big European art show ... early Christian saint holding a crucifix ...

A new Milwaukee Art Museum ... Brilliance of the Spanish World: El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán" assembles more than 50 works from Spain, Portugal and Latin America of the Renaissance and Baroque ...

Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred ... “This expressive scene conveys the religious sensibility of the artist ...