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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“For too long, Christian art has implied pale imitation,” Detweiler said. “We’re trying to get back to the days of the Renaissance, where the church was the patron of the finest art.” ...