Artist Beshoy Zaraa describes the tradition of painting the Christian story of the nativity of Jesus in Egyptian art to ...

and the halos on both Baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary are all in gold — a symbol of divinity. No halos — therefore, less gold ...

By then, gossip-biographer Giorgio Vasari had situated Florence, Rome, and Venice as centers of Renaissance art. You can feel ... painterly knowledge. The Virgin Mary was the patron saint of ...