by David Clayton on March 11, 2011
Manuel Farrugia, who painted these, is a young man just 22-years old from Gozo, Malta. Most of the skilled naturalistic painters today have received the traditional academic training in a form that resembles that offered in the ateliers of the 19th century. This is an excellent training for portraiture and still lives particularly, but it [...]
by David Clayton on December 13, 2010
I recently saw this Deposition by Carl Schmitt (1889-1989). Schmitt was a classically trained American artist who was a friend of Hilaire Belloc, who owned work by him, and who contributed a weekly column to Chesterton’s Weekly Review when Belloc was its editor. He was much travelled around Europe, but spent most of his adult [...]
by David Clayton on August 6, 2010
The Form of Baroque Art is Governed by Theology and Philosophy as Much as Iconographic Art.e In a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston a painting by an artist I had never heard of before caught my eye as an excellent example of baroque liturgical art. The Scourging of Christ is by an [...]
by David Clayton on April 15, 2010
This article arose from a conversation with Shawn Tribe of the New Liturgical Movement website where it first appeared, who mentioned to me that he felt that many of the best examples of sacred art in the naturalistic style that we are being painted today lack something when compared with the baroque masters of the [...]
