Giovanni Bellini’s St Jerome in a Landscape
August 29th 2020
As the Season of Creation begins this coming week, I thought this small painting by Giovanni Bellini might help us to ponder our place within the whole of God’s creation. The subject is St Jerome (347 – 420) who, as
Caravaggio’s Denial of St Peter
August 22nd 2020
“Denial of St Peter” 1601- 1607/10, Caravaggio, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. You can see this picture in higher resolution at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Saint_Peter_(Caravaggio)#/media/File:The_Denial_of_Saint_Peter-Caravaggio_(1610).jpg The story of St Peter’s denial of Jesus is told in all four gospels. Although the general
CARAVAGGIO’S DEATH OF THE VIRGIN
August 15th 2020
“Death of the Virgin”, 1601- 1605/06, Caravaggio, Louvre, Paris. You can see this picture in higher resolution but with some colour distortion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Virgin_(Caravaggio)#/media/File:Michelangelo_Caravaggio_069.jpg A soft light falls from high up on the left unto a scene of death. The
Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee”
August 8th 2020
This is Rembrandt’s first and only seascape. It was painted in 1633, which was early on in his career and shortly after his move from Leiden to Amsterdam. It is signed and dated but the details of the commission are
Matisse’s St Dominic at Vence
August 1st 2020
It fell to Fr Fergus to clothe me in the Dominican habit. It was 5th October 1992. There were two of us. I remember that he preached a very fine homily. He said what we were called to do was
