Archive - The Way of Beauty

The Beauty in the Beast: Images from the Aberdeen Bestiary

Colorful paintings of animals, real and mythical from the 13th-century English illuminated manuscript

Oct 28 • David Clayton

Mathematics of Beauty #2: Where Does It Come From Originally?

Part 2 of 6 — The Greeks, the Church Fathers, and what proportion actually means

Oct 21 • David Clayton

Scala Foundation Commissions Paul Jernberg to Compose Harmonized Four-Part Settings of the Psalm Tones Used in Musica Domestica

Families will be able to sing the Word of God in Harmony with the Angels!

Oct 14 • David Clayton

The Mathematics of Beauty, #1: Harmony, Monotony, and Cacophony

The good, the bad, and the ugly of design principles

Oct 7 • David Clayton

September 2026

Baroque Portraits, Still Lifes, and Landscapes

An Illustration of How Sacred Art Can Inform Profane Art

Sep 30 • David Clayton

Baroque Sacred Art: Hope that Transcends Suffering, #2

How the tradition spread across Europe, and the two great tendencies within it

Sep 23 • David Clayton

Baroque Sacred Art: Hope that Transcends Suffering, #1

The style that developed in 17th-century Italy: its origins, principles, and visual vocabulary

Sep 16 • David Clayton

Late Gothic masters, the threshold of the Renaissance, and the birth of secular art

Sep 9 • David Clayton

The Art of Pilgrimage

Sep 2 • David Clayton

August 2026

Read The Previous Five Articles on Science, Faith and Beauty in This Order...

Plus a summary of what they contain and why I wrote them

Aug 30 • David Clayton

(Science 5) Perhaps God Does Play Dice! Uncertainty is Essential To Quantum Mechanics...And So Is a Knowing Mind

A concluding observation: what it would actually take to eliminate the need for a knowing mind

Aug 26 • David Clayton

(Science 4) God Always Fills the Gap! The only question is whether he uses natural science to do so

Reframing the God-of-the-gaps objection — and how quantum mechanics informs the argument

Aug 19 • David Clayton

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