Elliot is now five months old and lookin’ good….. but then I’m a little biased as his granddaddy! BW3 Read more
Elliot is now five months old and lookin’ good….. but then I’m a little biased as his granddaddy! BW3 Read more
There are many paintings of the Adoration of the Magi but this is a very famous one by Fra Angelico and Fra Fillipo Lippi dating to about 1450. Some triptyches are just too large to get into a single shot. So here are three pictures of the one triptych. All I can say is— those are some mean looking Gospel writers, and saints, or saints and saints. The painting below would have made St. Paul hopping mad. It is entitled... Read more
Egg tempura is a hard medium to paint with, unlike oil. Yet the Greek Orthodox masters, and their Italian apprentices became absolute experts in it. Here are some wonderful examples that hang in the National Galley. Here, to begin with is John the Baptizer (complete with a banner saying ‘behold the Lamb of God’ in Latin). Lippo Memi painted this in about 1325. In the Orthodox tradition, John is treated as if he were a Christian saint (before there were... Read more
At the beginning of May I went to do some consulting for the Museum of the Bible. They gave me a few hours off one morning and I got to go see the special temporary Tintoretto exhibit, and some of my other favorites in that gallery. Here below is a painting by a little known French artist– Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, who painted a very revealing portrait in oil of the Prodigal Son in 1879. The artist has captured the... Read more
There is a story today on the news about Franklin Graham’s call for us to pray for President Trump this coming Sunday. Here is one version of the story……https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/us/franklin-graham-trump-day-of-prayer/index.html I agree with Franklin that the President needs prayer. But we have very different views of this particular President, and frankly I’ve been very disappointed in Franklin for the way he has overlooked or turned a blind eye to the many sins of this President, past and present, in the rush... Read more
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