Art

The Beauty in the Beast: Images from the Aberdeen Bestiary

Colorful paintings of animals, real and mythical from the 13th-century English illuminated manuscript

Oct 28 • David Clayton

Baroque Portraits, Still Lifes, and Landscapes

An Illustration of How Sacred Art Can Inform Profane Art

Sep 30 • David Clayton

Baroque Sacred Art: Hope that Transcends Suffering, #2

How the tradition spread across Europe, and the two great tendencies within it

Sep 23 • David Clayton

Baroque Sacred Art: Hope that Transcends Suffering, #1

The style that developed in 17th-century Italy: its origins, principles, and visual vocabulary

Sep 16 • David Clayton

Late Gothic masters, the threshold of the Renaissance, and the birth of secular art

Sep 9 • David Clayton

The Art of Pilgrimage

Sep 2 • David Clayton

The Crown of Thorns and the Lily Cross: the Symbolism of the new Adam and the new Eve

As expressed in Byzantine hymns and three paintings: English Pre-Raphaelite, Heironymous Bosch, and an English medieval wall painting

Aug 12 • David Clayton

The Iconographic Style, #2: Images Not Made with Human Hands: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Does an icon truly resemble our heavenly destiny, or only symbolize it — and what Our Lady of Guadalupe tells us about the answer.

Aug 5 • David Clayton

The Iconographic Style, #1: Truths and Myths

What icons actually are, where the tradition came from, and the modern myths that have grown up around it.

Jul 29 • David Clayton

Sacred Art #2: What Governs the Style of the Traditions

How the anthropology of the Theology of the Body accounts for the iconographic, Gothic, and Baroque styles, and why the art of Leonardo and Michelangelo…

Jul 22 • David Clayton

Sacred Art #1: Revealing the Invisible by Visible Means

On the purpose of sacred art, the role of style in communicating theological truth, and the three authentic traditions of liturgical art: iconographic…

Jul 15 • David Clayton

The Use of Sarum Book of Hours: Beautiful 14th-Century English Illuminations

A Model for Artists Today

Jul 8 • David Clayton

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