Caravaggio’s St Jerome at Valletta
September 23rd 2023
“St Jerome” 1607/08, Caravaggio, Museum of St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valetta, Malta. Please see this week’s newsletter for a comment on this painting.
Bellini’s Naples Transfiguration
August 5th 2023
You can read a comment from Fr Dermot on this image in this week’s newsletter.
Vermeer’s Christ in the house of Mary and Martha
July 29th 2023
“Christ in the House of Mary and Martha”, 1654-1656, Johannes Vermeer, National Gallery of Scotland. For a comment on this painting please read this week’s newsletter.
Gerolamo dai Libri’s Virgin and Child with St Anne
July 22nd 2023
Originally, it was painted as an altarpiece for the Church of Santa Maria della Scala in Verona. For a comment on this painting, please read this week’s newsletter.
ST MARY MAGDALENE BY PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
July 15th 2023
For comment on this fresco please see the newsletter for Sunday 16th July 2023
Jacopo Bassano’s Good Samaritan
July 8th 2023
There is a reflection on this painting in the newsletter for the week beginning 9th July.
BASSANO’S GOOD SAMARITAN
July 8th 2022
The Samaritan is struggling to lift the man left for dead by the side of the road, which behind him descends steeply from Jerusalem to Jericho. The Levite and the Temple priest are visible as as they make their hurried
Vermeer’s Christ in the house of Mary and Martha
July 2nd 2022
“Christ in the House of Mary and Martha”, 1654-1656, Johannes Vermeer, National Gallery of Scotland. Vermeer has positioned Christ’s hand the very centre of this canvas. The extended index finger suggests that he is teaching. Behind him, Martha is busy
CRIVELLI’S SAINTS PETER AND PAUL
June 24th 2022
This painting of Sts Peter and Paul is one of my favourites because the two saints look like real characters. This is a side-panel from a large and very formal altarpiece which once adorned the high altar of the Parish
MASS IN A CONEMARA CABIN
June 18th 2022
“Mass in a Connemara Cabin”, Aloysius O’Kelly, 1883, National Gallery Dublin. A young priest gives the final blessing at a Station Mass. His vestments are white and there is a picture of the Sacred Heart in the background, which suggests
