A unique formation for artists in any creative discipline, patrons of the arts and any who love Catholic culture and want to contribute to the establishment of a culture of beauty today.
Praising God in Word and Deed
A Grand Miniature! A 6th Century Illumination of the Ascenscion
Illuminations in manuscripts are called miniatures. This is not due to their size, but because the pigment lead oxide - red lead, minium in Latin - was used to lay down the first lines. Because many of these were of a small size it came to mean small-scale art too, and later to denote any object of a small size.
Peace and the Artistic Temperament
A Problem of Governance? Responding to the Crisis of Abuses of Power in the Church
The Art Critic and Loving Those Who Hate Us
Monastic Experience Weekend, May 31: St Mary's Benedictine Monastery, Petersham
Transposing the Gospel
The Theology of Legoland - Why Is It So Popular?
Christians take note. Legoland have worked something out here. These children are transported in their imaginations and they love it. The fact that the images are made out of plastic bricks, does not put them off, rather it seems to attract them even more. We may hold our noses at the McDisney aesthetic, but we should look and learn. and consider why, despite that, it is so popular.
