“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. He’s right. The 1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in France, produced in ...

Chagall worked obsessively on the series The Bible, even going to Amsterdam to carefully study biblical paintings by Rembrandt and El Greco and to examine the extremes in religi ...

“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. He’s right. The 1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in ...