{"id":7026,"date":"2013-04-09T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:00:09","slug":"sensual-christianity-i-review-an-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/04\/sensual-christianity-i-review-an-art-show.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sensual Christianity&#8221;: I review an art show"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>in the <em>Weekly Standard<\/em>. \u201cThe Pre-Raphaelites,\u201d at the National Gallery until May 19:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pre-Raphaelites attempted to craft a unified sensibility at once modern and medieval. Unlike devotees of the overlapping Aesthetic and Decadent movements, who, in some ways, were the Brotherhood\u2019s heirs, the Pre-Raphaelites were aggressively English and Protestant. Shakespeare, Keats, Chaucer, and Wycliffe all get heroic treatments here. And the exhibit highlights the artists\u2019 religious sensibilities\u2014in fact, one room is dedicated to portrayals of \u201cSalvation,\u201d but religious themes weave throughout the show\u2014and religious paintings show some of the best examples of the Pre-Raphaelite method.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/sensual-christianity_714590.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the Weekly Standard. \u201cThe Pre-Raphaelites,\u201d at the National Gallery until May 19: The Pre-Raphaelites attempted to craft a unified sensibility at once modern and medieval. Unlike devotees of the overlapping Aesthetic and Decadent movements, who, in some ways, were the Brotherhood\u2019s heirs, the Pre-Raphaelites were aggressively English and Protestant. 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