Roche, who has made a name for himself with his work on iconic religious sites like Chartres cathedral in recent years, is ...

The Tuscan city positively brims with museums, galleries and medieval churches ... Highlights include Gentile da Fabriano’s Adoration of the Magi, Botticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus ...

Wall paintings were also points of meditation and devotion, which existed to reinforce the words delivered from the pulpit.

There are also pictures where he simply sleeps the sleep of the just ... The reflection about his dignity and holiness began to flower in Medieval times. The seventeenth, and again the nineteenth ...

And it is still just the season of Christmas, running up to Candlemas at the beginning of February, and including the feast of the Epiphany, with the Magi visiting the manger. The theological ...