14th c. anonymous ivory of the Virgin and Child:
St. Thomas More, by Pablo Eduardo, a modern Bolivian sculptor.
The feet seem a bit clumsy, but I love the movement and the rugged features.
Posted on 05/28/2011 10:59:49 AM PDT by Salvation
This a beautiful church. Did you notice the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe?
That should be removed. It is ugly. No surprise since the man I suspect who chose it is ugly in heart.
It IS beautiful!
Thanks. I was the first Church that we visited in our pilgrimage to Eastern Europe. Some spot in my heart.
Salvation, this is wonderful. Thank you very much. I’m glad to know that there are still artists working in a traditional manner. Too many of the churches of my youth were, umm, “altered,” with modern art. Cannot stand that stuff. But I’d love to see any of these (excluding Mr. Graham, no offense, Jeff Chandler). As a former graphic artist, words fail. Just beautiful. And thank you.
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It was the first Church that we visited in our pilgrimage to Eastern Europe. Some spot in my heart.
How can this be an ecumenical thread with an antagonizing statement like this???
And of course the statement is completely untrue...Expecially in view of one of the Ten Commandments that this religion violates...
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
14th c. anonymous ivory of the Virgin and Child:
St. Thomas More, by Pablo Eduardo, a modern Bolivian sculptor.
The feet seem a bit clumsy, but I love the movement and the rugged features.
Just my opinions, and your mileage may vary:
Gloria Thomas:
Absalom and David as a prefiguring of Christ's sacrifice.
the Blessed Virgin Mary
This is good work. Her vision is unique, but I have the feeling that she is still searching for her own style - there are echoes of numerous artists here.
Kirk St. Maur:
Father Marquette. What is it about these people and draperies?
Frederick Hart (who apparently died in 1999):
from the National Cathedral
He's really uneven. Some of his stuff is great, some of it is just kitsch (especially the floating ladies). He has of the sculptors the best ability to handle his material though.
This is more like illumination than conventional portraiture. I think I like it because it is done in the same spirit as one of my favorite artists, Arthur Szyk:
I have his Haggadah, which is a most marvelous work.
This article must be pretty old: Frederick Hart has been dead for ten years, God rest his soul. I wish the Lord had allowed us to keep him for many years longer, as his conservative views were an important force for faith, culture, freedom, and nation. So annoyed about this; now I’m going to have to wait until I get to heaven to have a chance to talk to him. Bah.
So did you want the original poster to edit the article and remove from it any statements that, by ESP, she would recognize as potentially causing you to take offense? This was a statement from someone interviewed in the article, not a statement made by the poster. Stop whining. It's a thread about Christian art, which presumably we can all enjoy, not about the doctrine of some specific church. And no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read it.
I was looking for something about art around last Christmas and found this article. It wasn’t the best time to post it, so I waited. Today, I got the urge (Holy Spirit, was that you?) to post something about the Christ Child and different art portrayals of the Christ child and found this thread I saved. So I posted it and went on to find the Child Jesus Devotion thread with picitures of the Child Jesus from around the world.
In doing so, however, I found that wonder panorama of Our Lady of Victory that I posted above. It is the church in Prague that houses the Infant of Prague.
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Yep. Wreck out the Taj Mahony (yesterday!) but somebody save the tapestries!
Oh, dear. Stiff, bad handling of the fabric, and looks like an African-American boy, not the BVM. Where do they find these “artists”?
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