Update: The painting Retrato de niña o Joven Inmaculada ... before the two canvases of the Immaculate Conception at the National Gallery in London (1618-19) and the Focus-Abengoa Foundation ...

A private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...

Today’s feast is depicted in art by the Spanish master, Diego Velázquez, who painted it in 1618 in Seville. Although Pope Pius IX formally proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain. Murillo's painting was ...

The painting was a copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial," of the Virgin Mary was one of a famous series by the 17th-century Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The original ...

Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, is kicking off a new video series today on art and faith with a video celebrating today’s solemnity, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

The painting still bears the scars of a late ... At first blush, the three depictions of the Immaculate Conception hanging side-by-side in the exhibit are quite similar. All three Virgin Marys ...

Titled “The Great Masters of Painting,” the assignment allowed ... Those visiting the exhibition may just walk away with a new conception of the artist’s work and Surrealism as a whole.

Marciari's reasoning is partly based on similarities between the painting and Velazquez's Inmaculate Conception. One factor which may indicate authorship is that the painter used blue and yellow ...