Among other things, this deployment of the critical spirit acts as a bastion against the engulfing rust of presentism.

This fresco of Saint Thomas Aquinas by Fra Angelico can found at the Vatican in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V.

"Old Woman with a Rosary" by Paul Cézanne was donated by the artist to the poet Joachim Gasquet,

During a lifespan that crossed from the 4th to early 5th century, Saint Jerome was a priest, a monk, a pope's secretary, a desert hermit, and head of a monastery in Bethlehem.

Miracles wrought through the intercession of saints give evidence of their holiness and Christian virtue. 

February 18th was the 565^th anniversary of the death of the Early Renaissance artist Fra Angelico.

A man lies back against a wooden cradle, high in the apse of the ancient church of Saint Clement in Rome.

By the time Jean-François Millet had at last gained some grudging respect from the Paris Salon, his health was failing. 

Martin Scorsese's homage to Mafiosos movies is ultimately a tale of life experienced from the perspective of eternity.

A bumper crop of superior viewing.