Pictures from the National Gallery of Art...
Category: Bible and catechism
Harps at the National Gallery of Art in DC
I mention DC because sometimes when I do a search for National Gallery I get London. I'm offering a little eye candy today. All the pictures are from National Art Gallery and all are in the public domain. Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely artist: Thomas Sully, 1818. What's very entertaining to me about this [...]
A puzzle and a metaphor
A friend sent me this photo of a painting on the wall of a church he had visited. The picture came in as a fuzzy image at first which sometimes happens when iPhones send pictures to my Not an iPhone. Because I knew the church's name was Saint Helen I carelessly though that it was [...]
Merry Christmas Eve
The Presentation O-Sek Bang, 1974 from an exhibit at the Marian Library at University of Dayton, in 2006. Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea was an exhibit at the University of Dayton's Marian Center in 2006. It featured a Korean artist, O-Sek Bang. The promotional material says that "Ms. Bang, whose grandparents [...]
The Feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls
... A nice distinction found in the Father Lasance missal I inherited from my mother. Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints and I hope everyone has something festive. One of the priests around here always says, be sure to have some ice cream on a feast day. And tomorrow is the Commemoration [...]
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