The Word for Word Bible Comic is not trying to reinvent the Bible. Rather, it is a genuine attempt to represent the scriptures as accurately and as faithfully as possible for a new generation of readers for whom images hold the key to a greater understanding of the world’s best-selling book. This is not the first project that has transformed the Christian scriptures into a comic.
Read More(REVIEW) The Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán is celebrated today as one of the greatest masters of the Spanish Golden Age. His many paintings of friars, nuns and saints for the churches and religious orders earned him the sobriquet “painter of monks.” A favorite subject was Saint Francis of Assisi and nearly 50 paintings of the 13th-century friar by Zurbarán or his assistants are known to have survived.
Read MoreThis year and into 2025, Surrealism is being celebrated by several major exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., including "Imagine! 100 Years of Surrealism,” "Long Live Surrealism! 1924–Today” and "Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes.” While each features artworks by the movement’s most celebrated artists, the latter, at The Hepworth Wakefield in the U.K., includes a focus on a largely forgotten figure.
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