The Splendor of Heaven: Botticini’s Assumption of the Virgin
The most striking thing about this enormous painting is its arresting luminosity.
Art for the Liturgical Year
Reflections on art through the Liturgical Year
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Marital Love and Holiness in Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel
Saints Joachim and Anne
The Mystic Winepress and the Precious Blood of Christ
After a little summer hiatus due to family weddings and illness, I am back to write about the Mystic Winepress for the month of July which is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Christ.
Saint Anthony, the Franciscans, and the Iconographic Art of Viceregal Peru
It is no surprise that images and statues of Saint Anthony of Padua, that Franciscan miracle worker and Doctor of the Church, abounded in Colonial Spain where the Franciscan influence was keenly felt.
Three in One and One in Three: The Trinity in the Rothschild Manuscript
“One is as much as the three together, nor are two anything more than one.
From the Roman Standard to the Crux Gemmata and the Processional Cross
On Rogationtide, Crux Gemmata, and the Processional Cross
Saint George, "Intrepid Champion of Our Risen Christ"
On the Paschal character of the St George images
The Passion Prayer Book of Simon Bening
Artistic expressions of Christ’s Passion abound in the later Middle Ages.
Passiontide, the Veil of Veronica, and Georges Rouault’s Miserere et Guerre
On what it means to see through the eyes of Veronica
Why We Need Wayside Crosses
A short history