articles by Mary Elizabeth Podles

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



more from the online archives

27.5—Sept/Oct 2014

The Hundred Years' War

The Culture of Death's Campaign Against the Catholic Church by Brantly Millegan

24.1—January/February 2011

The Romance of Domesticity

Marriage Thrives in Reality, Not in Our Dreams by Nathan Schlueter

14.2—March 2001

The God of Princes

on the Political Use of Religion by Wilfred M. McClay

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