Godly Play: Bruegel’s ‘Children’s Games’
byAt the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, there is a room featuring a number of paintings by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Vibrant…
Art History
Encountering an Icon: Thomas Eakins’ ‘The Crucifixion’
by‘There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.’ [1] With these two provocative little sentences, E.H. Gombrich begins his famed…
The Seraphim Through the Eyes of Isaiah
byOne of the more familiar stories from the Hebrew Bible comes from the ‘Call of Isaiah’ in Isaiah 6. The lines ‘Woe is me!’,…
‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’
byJust before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics…
Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: Two takes on the Baptism of Christ
byChichester Cathedral houses two 20th paintings of the Baptism of Christ[1]: one by Hans Feibusch (1951/77) in the Baptistery, the other by Patrick Procktor…
Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: The Piper Tapestry
byEditor’s Note: This article is the second in a series by Naomi Billingsley, who will be writing on reflections on art at Chichester Cathedral. In my…
Hearing Visual Art in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Radio Plays
byA few years ago, when I taught an undergraduate ‘systematic theology for artists’ class, we looked at the traditional ways certain biblical scenes are…