![Bark of St. Peter](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Peters-boat.jpg?crop=28px%2C0px%2C1152px%2C650px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
Art
Our collection of articles on art that uses religious inspiration and motifs, intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual.
![Bark of St. Peter](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Peters-boat.jpg?crop=28px%2C0px%2C1152px%2C650px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
![MADONNA WITH CHILD](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/web3-trees-in-art-symbolism-gerard-david-public-domain.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
The role of trees in medieval Christianity
![Vatican Museums](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Vatican-Museums.jpg?crop=0px%2C62px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
![Ikona Matki Bożej na górze Athos w Grecji](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/gora-athos-ikona-shutterstock_1783893185.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![Giovanni-Guida-reliquary-1.jpg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Giovanni-Guida-reliquary-1.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
Giovanni Guida: “All true art is already sacred”
![Lily of the Mohawks, Voyage Comics](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Voyage-Comics-Lily-of-the-Mohawks-cut.jpg?crop=0px%2C62px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
![Recreating St. Anthony's face](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/RECREATING-ST-ANTHONYS-FACE.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![RAPHAEL](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/web3-raffaello-sanzio-raphael-raffaello_sanzio-pd.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![St-Luke-by-Vincenzo-Foppa](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/St-Luke-by-Vincenzo-Foppa-shutterstock_582790441.jpg?crop=0px%2C14px%2C1408px%2C795px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
V. M. Traverso
The little-known “Sistine Chapel” of Milan
![Beheading-of-Saint-Paul.jpeg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Beheading-of-Saint-Paul.jpeg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
The beheading of St. Paul in Málaga’s Cathedral
![siena-floor-1.jpeg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/siena-floor-1.jpeg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
The floors of the Cathedral of Siena
![african-byzantine-2.jpeg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/african-byzantine-2.jpeg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
MET Museum will host a Byzantine Africa exhibition
![Poet Anna Key, blue tint](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/anna-key-blue.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Fr. Michael Rennier
“Dwelling poetically”: An interview with Anna Key, part two
![Artist drawing artwork based on Narnia books](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/wardrobe-narnia.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![anna-key-1.jpg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/anna-key-1.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Fr. Michael Rennier
“Finding the spirit”: an interview with poet Anna Key
![anne et joachim](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ANNE-ET-JOACHIM-shutterstock_1343840249.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Daniel Esparza
Anne, Joachim, and the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
![Sacred Art Eucharist](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Sacred-Art-Eucharist.jpg?crop=0px%2C50px%2C1200px%2C678px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
![Sculpture of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/The-Gracchi-Brothers.jpeg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![Workers discover Frescoes at Naples State Archive Building](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/362241692_605850271690960_4377937692895399612_n.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
V. M. Traverso
A 16th-century chapel was found beneath a wall in Naples
![Aulps Abbey, partially rebuilt in cardboard for a week](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/abbatiale-en-carton-Alups-2-sm.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)