[Romulus]

Hello annalex; hope all is well with you.

My wife and I got a good look at Romanesque sculpture in France this past winter. It satisfies spiritually in a way the more literal gothic style fails to achieve.

ISTM that our discomfort at seeing nudity in a sacred context says more about our own disordered sinfulness than anything else.

Cheers and best wishes.

[annalex]

I just got done reading Beckwith's Early Medieval Art. I think we took many wrong turns since then, most egregiously with Mannerism and what followed.

But we are in luck: the early art is also rustic, and therefore can come from an unschooled source. Look, for example at the flourishing of Byzantine iconography that is happening today.

I was talking to Askel the other day how the Traditional Latin Mass has really late, Baroque to be precise, esthetics, whereas in the rustic simplicity of Novus Ordo may lie the roots of its eventual vindication.

Yes, I remembered your naked Jesus thread vividly, as I embarked on this one today. We are doing fine so far.

God bless.