March is Women’s History Month, and International Women’s Day, first observed in 1911, will be celebrated on March 8. Give to Gain is this year’s

The collection of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) includes art made by the best painters of the High Renaissance. The Medici of Florence, along

Delita Martin was born in 1972 in Conroe, Texas, near Houston, and continues to live and work in nearby Huffman. She says, “Everybody in my

  The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC holds in its collection several 15th Century Italian Renaissance masterpieces. The earlier Byzantine style gave

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC is one of the world’s finest museums. The collection contains works from the early Italian Renaissance

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was the leader of the French Realist painters. He was born in Ornans, a city on the first plateau of the Jura

Epiphany was celebrated on Tuesday, January 6, this year. The King James Version of the Book of Matthew tells the story: “There came wise men

The Feast of Stephen occurs each year on December 26. The feast day may be familiar; it is mentioned in the carol “Good King Wenceslas”

Christmas with Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961) began painting at age 78. Her paintings of bygone American life were discovered in 1938, and