Louvre, Virgin of the Rocks 1483-1486 Leonardo da Vinci Louvre, Paris Wikipedia/public domain London Virgin of the Rocks 1495-1508 Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery London Wikipedia/public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks A friend of mine and I were discussing the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, possibly because the Catholic Church just celebrated the [...]
Happy Feast of the Assumption!
From Dayton museum, Art of O-Sek Bang. "Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea" (2006). https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=ml_exhibitsummaries
Saint Jane and her feast day
Today the Feast of Saint Jane DeChantal is celebrated but only in the US. For most of my life, her feast has bounced around. Many years ago it was celebrated on August 21, which I am very aware of because it was the anniversary of my parents’ wedding. At the time my mother wasn’t a [...]
Stained glass setting*
I took this picture in Iowa a few weeks ago. Forty years ago this entire church was ALL painted white or cream. All of that delicate detail below was obscured and barely noticeable. Obviously the shapes were still present, but when a renovation was done a few years ago, the church was revealed as it [...]
Stained glass tells a story
Years ago I saw these windows above the altar in a church which had been stripped of its decoration in the 1970's, as part of a renovation. The church at that time was all one color and the altar space was a soaring emptiness, with beautiful windows. When I realized what the windows portrayed I [...]
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