Beauty Comes in Threes

by David Clayton on June 17, 2013

Beauty Comes in Threes

Look at this photograph of St Clare’s in Assisi, which is top in the series of photographs below, and at the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe New Mexico, which is second. The first is 13th century and second was completed in 1886.   If one takes in each case the lower [...]

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St Anthony of Padua

by David Clayton on June 13, 2013

St Anthony of Padua

To mark the Feast Day here are paintings of Anthony of Padua by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. Van Dyck was a pupil of Rubens. A star at a young age, he moved to the protestant patron Charles I in England. I was told when I was studying in Florence that he is the father of [...]

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An Art School in Florence in the Naturalistic Tradition that is Good for Christians

The Russian Academy of Art in Florence  I have just been given information about a school that teaches the traditional academic method according that  which developed in Russia in the 19th century, which seems to be a place that Catholics should think about for study. A former student of mine at Thomas More College, Jacqueline [...]

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Schubert Soothes Savages, Becalms Beasts and Subdues Students (Throwing Food) – the Evidence is Here

As another in an occasional series that just relates pieces of music that had a great effect on me  I offer Schubert’s Impromptu Op 90 No4. I was a student at Oxford when I first heard this. It was at a formal college Christmas dinner of the Middle Common Room (the graduate students). It may [...]

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Gardens in Berkeley, California

by David Clayton on June 4, 2013

Gardens in Berkeley, California

Here are some photos of ordinary gardens in Berkeley, California. I was visiting recently and just took these snaps as I wandered around the town. Berkeley has a temperate microclimate and so has a long growing season and very little frost. It is warmer and sunnier than Britain, which also has a temperate climate, and [...]

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A Single Mathematical System that Unifies Liturgy and Physics – and Removes Wave Particle Duality

Are there any mathematicians out there who can tell me if this is nonesense? It might turn the whole of science upside down. I recently did a posting about how the passage through sacred time might be viewed as a helical progression based upon the significance of the numbers 7 and 8 in the liturgy [...]

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How To Choose a Painting for Catechesis

by David Clayton on May 28, 2013

How To Choose a Painting for Catechesis

The following article is written by Dr Caroline Farey and John Casey and of the Maryvale Institute and first appeared in The Sower, which is published by the Maryvale institute and distributed in both the UK and the UK. It is available online at www.thesowerreview.com. This is written about paintings of the Annunciation, but through it [...]

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Real Men Grow and Pick Lilies…Yes They Do!

by David Clayton on May 24, 2013

Real Men Grow and Pick Lilies…Yes They Do!

Is gardening for beauty and delight a male or a female occupation? Talking to many here in the US, the impression I get is that people see growing food for produce, or rearing animals for food as a masculine thing; but growing a garden for its beauty? Definitely not. They will rear chickens in their [...]

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