An ancient baptistery was recently unearthed in France – and archaeologists say the discovery sheds light on Christian rituals from over 1,500 years ago. The baptistery, dating back to the fifth and ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex. The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the ...

We do not know, as the thick walls of the baptistery hold tight to their secrets. For a thousand years the walls bore witness as each and every Florentine newborn passed through their gates. In a ...

The first thing people see and hear upon entering St. David's Episcopal Church in Ashburn is the water. It is churning and gurgling in an immersion baptistery smack-dab in the middle of the center ...

Archaeologists in southeastern France have uncovered the remains of an early Christian cathedral and a remarkably preserved baptistery dating back more than 1,500 years, which they are calling one of ...

H. Belting, “Dandolo’s Dreams: Venetian State Art and Byzantium,” in Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557). Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture, ed. S. T. Brooks (New Haven,2006), 138-53, ...

This essay addresses the significance of the Assumption of the Virgin fresco in the Baptistery of Siena and the existence of an adjacent tunnel that connects the Baptistery to the Cathedral above. The ...