Fr Fergus’ Portrait
May 31st 2025
Fr Fergus Kerr OP, David Williams 2023, printed by Pradip Malde, Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Back in 2023, we needed a good photograph of Fr Fergus for his collection of essays, “From Aberdeen to Oxford”, so the photographer David Williams
Tintoretto’s Visitation
May 24th 2025
“Visitation”, Tintoretto, 1588, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. This “Visitation” was positioned high up on the main staircase of the Scoula Grande di San Rocco near an annunciation by Titian. However, the light was poor and at such
LIPPI’S DOMINIC WITH A KNIFE
May 17th 2025
“The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic”, Filippino Lippi, c.1485, National Gallery London (room 60). For many years we had an oil painting of St Dominic in our London Priory. It was very dark, but then we
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
May 10th 2025
“The Good Shepherd”, Third Century, Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome. This fresco was painted on the ceiling of a burial chamber in the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. The male figure in the centre looks like the Good Shepherd from
CRIVELLI’S MADONNA OF THE SWALLOW
May 3rd 2025
“The Madonna of the Swallow”, Carlo Crivelli, about 1430/5, National Gallery, London This painting gets its name from the swallow on the top left. For us swallows are significant as a herald of spring and new growth, but in 15th Century
