https://redcircle.com/shows/distinctive-christianity/ep/8751b01e-69ec-4729-bd78-4f7a277dce06 An interesting conversation…. Read more
It is amazing to think about the thousands of words, that have gone into J.K. Rowlings numerous novels, first with the Harry Potter series, and more recently with the seven hefty volumes of the Cormoran Strike detective thriller series. This last may not quite be of War and Peace proportions (which amounts to about 1400 pages!) but does go on for 897 pages, and yet none of it is filler. Rowling is a master of description, clever plots, complex and... Read more
More grave monuments and inscriptions from the Roman world in this post. There is notably little art from ancient Greece in this museum but here is one piece… Read more
One of the surprising features of this small museum that is packed with all sorts of things is the very diversity of those things, for instance quite a lot of Greco-Roman and Egyptian objects, and we will look at them in this and the next post. There are for instance a lot of Roman grave steles, and some urns and sarcophagi as well, for instance the one immediately below. Many of these are inscribed with D.M. short for Dis Manibus–... Read more
Classical education involved not only required study of Christian sources, but also classical literature as well. It is only in the 20th century that the requirement to study the Greek and Latin classics became optional in America, less so in Europe. The artists simply followed the lead of the educational programs in major university, since most art was for museums, the socially elite and well educated, and occasionally for universities that had major museums. Read more
There is quite a lot of religious art and artifacts in the Speed Museum. Here are two paintings of familiar Biblical scenes for instance Here’s the wedding feast at Cana, in a totally unlikely setting… There are also paintings of scenes from Greek tragedy…. Read more
In our last post we showed some of the Lincoln memorabilia but I left off his life mask by accident, and here it is… Notice the ancient wallpaper, very appropriate in Kentucky since limestone is everywhere… This beautiful marble statue is supposed to represent one of the three Christian virtues… Read more
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