Jesus' Parable of the Mustard Seed, with its imagery of a seed growing into a plant big enough for birds to perch in, is often seen as foretelling the growth of Christianity. Arguably the greatest ...

The Chapel of the Rosary, which Matisse designed in the late 1940s, is on an unprepossessing street in the town of Vence in the hills above Nice. One’s first view of the building is of something ...

There’s something about the light in Nice that makes blues seem bluer. At the height of the afternoon, flecks of light dance on the waves, and the sky appears cobalt blue against the pastel buildings.

A new Dominican chapel in the Provengal village of Vence was consecrated last week. Its designer: famed Artist Henri Matisse. Now 81 and too ill to attend the consecration, Matisse sent a ...

Matisse was by now a celebrated artist whose output to date would have assured his future reputation. He was a master at reinvention and constant experimentation. But by the late 1920s, he’d come to a ...

VENCE CHAPEL : THE ARCHIVE OF A CREATION HENRI MATISSE MA COUTURIER LB RAYSSIGUIER EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARCEL BILLOT WITH A FOREWORD BY DOMINIQUE DE MENIL TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL TAYLOR ...