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by bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | art history, Featured, News, sacred art, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel” (which means, God with us). —Matthew 1:23 Tuscany, Italy, 1300. As the Middle Ages advanced in learning and trade, and particularly following the “best-selling” book on the Far East produced by Marco Polo on his return from the court […]
by bcadmin | Feb 20, 2022 | art history, Catholic News Service, Church History, Counter-Reformation, gossip, News, Pope Francis, Protestant Reformation, Renaissance, Vatican, Vatican museums | 0 |
Pope Francis often warns about the dangers of gossip, likening tattlers to terrorists who “drop a bomb with their tongue” and “destroy the reputation of others.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Art, art history, Black Catholics, Black History Month, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Native Americans, News, Racism, slavery, Stamps | 0 |
Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2020 | Art, art history, Books, Interviews, lead, News, Rome, Vatican museums | 0 |
Travel writer and Seattle native Tiffany Parks has lived in Rome for nearly two decades, and has written a young adult mystery novel about one of the hidden masterpieces in Rome, the Fontana delle Tartarughe [Turtle fountain] in the city’s Jewish Ghetto.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2020 | Art, art history, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, lead, News, Raphael, Rome, sacred art | 0 |
When an ambitious and highly-anticipated exhibition on famed Renaissance painter Raphael opened Thursday, the moment served as proof that for Italians, not even the coronavirus is enough to keep them at home when an unprecedented collection of masterpieces comes to town.
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