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Art Lectio

Art Lectio exists to cultivate faithful looking. We slow down and let beauty point us toward what is true and what is good.

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The Anticlimax

Watch now | Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Drunkenness of Noah, 1509, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City

When the Storms Come

Watch now | Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Flood (also called The Deluge), 1508–1509, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City.

The Ancient Language of Gratitude

Watch now | Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Sacrifice of Noah, 1509, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City.

Misplaced Desire

Watch now | Michelangelo Buonarroti, Original Sin and Banishment from the Garden of Eden, 1509–1510, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City.

Time is Short

Watch now | Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, c. 1606, Galleria Borghese, Rome

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Life Begins with Open Hands

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Creation of Eve, 1510

Boundaries Create Freedom

Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Separation of Land from Sea, 1508–1512

The Gap Between Two Hands

Watch now | Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1511–1512, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City

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Overflowing With Generosity

Watch now | Michelangelo Buonarroti, Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants, 1511

A Young Woman with a Unicorn

Watch now | Raphael, Lady with Unicorn, c. 1505, Borghese Gallery, Rome

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Order From Chaos

Watch now | Michelangelo, The Separation of Light from Darkness, 1508–1512

A Slow Look at the Sistine Chapel

Watch now | I waited most of my life to see the Sistine Chapel.

Enter the Sistine Chapel with me

Watch now | A two weeks series for paid subscribers

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Sunday Silence: Memento Mori

Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, c. 1605–06

When My Strength Falters

Watch now | Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, 1811

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The Angelus

Watch now | Jean-François Millet, The Angelus, 1857–1859

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What Makes a Human Body Beautiful?

Watch now | Ancient Civilisations: A Survey of Classical Greek Sculpture

Sunday Silence

Georges de La Tour, Magdalene with Two Flames, c. 1640

The Weighing of the Heart

Unknown artist, The Weighing of the Heart from the Papyrus of Ani, c. 1250 BC

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The Hinge of Human History

Watch now | Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, c. 1434/1436

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The Longing Beneath My Thirst

Watch now | Statue of Gudea with the Gushing Vase, Neo-Sumerian, Artist Unknown, 2120–2110 BC, Musée du Louvre

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What Does Faithfulness Look Like Today?

Watch now | Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565

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