From the Crucifixion to pop art: how humanity has painted solar eclipses

Solar eclipses have captivated painters across the ages—from the Nebra Sky Disc of antiquity through Renaissance masters like Rubens, twentieth-century modernists like Howard Russell Butler, and pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein. Per Euronews, what draws them is the eclipse's rare convergence of faith, scientific observation, and aesthetic wonder. That intersection between the sacred, the studied, and the beautiful has kept artists gazing skyward for millennia.

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