articles by Mary Elizabeth Podles

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat


37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna


37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

Otto Wagner's Kirche am Steinhof


37.3 — May/June 2024

The Last Judgment, Sainte-Foy at Conques


37.2 — Mar/Apr 2024

Michelangelo’s Delphic Sybil


37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

Michelangelo's God Separating the Light from the Darkness


36.6 — Nov/Dec 2023

Gustave Doré’s The Dove Sent Forth from the Ark


36.5 — Sept/Oct 2023

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry


36.4 — Jul/Aug 2023

Old Woman Cutting Her Nails


36.3 — May/Jun 2023

The Paradise Carpet


36.2 — Mar/Apr 2023

"The Angel Asiel, the Fear of God"


36.1 — Jan/Feb 2023

Ivanka Demchuk's Icon of the Annunciation


35.6 — Nov/Dec 2022

Giovanni Bellini’s Saint Francis in the Desert


35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022

The Virgin of Vladimir


35.4 — Jul/Aug 2022

The Church of Santa Prisca


35.3 — May/Jun 2022

Diego Velasquez's Christ Crucified


35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022

The Pantheon


35.1 — January/February 2022

Henri Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary, Part 2


34.6 — Nov/Dec 2021

Henri Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary


34.5 — Sept/Oct 2021

Kintsugi Bowl


34.4 — July/August 2021

The Colossus of Constantine


34.3 — May/June 2021

Hagia Sophia, Church of the Holy Wisdom


34.2 — March/April 2021

Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne


34.1 — January/February 2021

Thomas Cole's Falls of the Kaaterskill


33.6 — Nov/Dec 2020

Benjamin West's The Nativity


33.5 — September/October 2020

The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting the Collection of Pierre Roose


33.4 — July/August 2020

Jost Bürgi & Hans Jacob Emck's Equation Clock


33.3 — May/June 2020

The Asam Brothers' The Assumption


33.2 — March/April 2020

John the Baptist by Anton Raphael Mengs


33.1 — January/February 2020

Portrait of St. Luke in the Gospel Book of Otto III


32.6 — November/December 2019

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Flight into Egypt


32.5 — September/October 2019

Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ


32.4 — July/August 2019

Rembrandt's The Denial of Peter


32.3 — May/June 2019

The Alfred Jewel


32.2 — March/April 2019

The Throne of Maximianus


32.1 — January/February 2019

Pietro and Gianlorenzo Bernini's Fontana della Barcaccia


31.6 — November/December 2018

Henry Ossawa Tanner's Annunciation


31.5 — September/October 2018

The Chalice of Abbot Suger


31.4 — July/August 2018

Rachel Ruysch's Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase


31.3 — May/June 2018

The Beekeepers


31.2 — March/April 2018

The Votive Crown of King Recceswinth


31.1 — January/February 2018

Leonardo's Madonna and Child with Saint Anne


30.6 — Nov/Dec 2017

Titian's The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea


30.5 — Sept/Oct 2017

The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah by by Carlo Dolci


30.4 — July/Aug 2017

Johannes Vermeer's A Woman Holding a Balance


30.3 — May/June 2017

St. Luke the Evangelist


30.2 — March/April 2017

The Transfiguration by Theophanes the Greek


30.1 — Jan/Feb 2017

El Greco's St. Joseph and the Child Jesus


29.6 — Nov/Dec 2016

Andrei Rublev's The Nativity


29.5 — Sept/Oct 2016

The Adoration of the Lamb, The Ghent Altarpiece, Part III
by Hubert & Jan van Eyck


29.4 — July/August 2016

The Ghent Altarpiece, Part II


29.3 — May/June 2016

Hubert and Jan van Eyck's
The Ghent Altarpiece


29.2 — March/April 2016

Ara Pacis Augustae


29.1 — Jan/Feb 2016

Apse Mosaic Church of Sant'Apollinare in Classe


28.6 — Nov/Dec 2015

The Portinari Altarpiece
by Hugo van der Goes


28.5 — Sept/Oct 2015

Madonna di Ca' Pesaro by Titian


28.4 — July/Aug 2015

Anastasis


28.3 — May/June 2015

Portico de la Gloria by Master Mateo


28.2 — March/April 2015

The Risen Christ by Michelangelo Buonarotti


28.1 — January/February 2015

Crucifix by José Aragón


27.6 — Nov/Dec 2014

The School of Athens, Raffaello Sanzio


27.5 — Sept/Oct 2014

La Disputa, Raffaello Sanzio


27.4 — July/August 2014

The Blessing Christ


27.3 — May/June 2014

As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young
by Jan Steen


27.2 — March/April 2014

Ecce Homo by Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)


27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014

The Feast in the House of Levi
by Paolo Caliari (Veronese)


26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013

Rembrandt van Rijn's Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul


26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013

Raffaello Sanzio's The Sistine Madonna


26.4 — July/August 2013

Jan van Eyck's The Madonna in a Church


26.3 — May/June 2013

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz


26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013

Poussin's The Holy Family on the Steps


26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013

Andrei Rublev's The Trinity


25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012

Raphael's Alba Madonna


25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012

Albrecht Dürer's Noli Me Tangere


25.4 — July/August 2012

Albrecht Durer's Vision of the Seven Candlesticks


25.3 — May/Jun 2012

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man


25.2 — March/April 2012

Barocci's Annunciation


25.1 — Jan/Feb 2012

Rembrandt & the Speaking Image of Christ


22.5 — June 2009

Ceiling Paint

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel by Andrew Graham-Dixon


15.1 — January/February 2002

Tolkien & the New Art

Visual Sources for The Lord of the Rings


6.2 — Spring 1993

Art & Religion

A Few Thoughts on the Literacy Problem


short pieces by Mary Elizabeth Podles

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