As humanists sought the truth by mastering ancient languages, and reformers by printing the Gospels in vernacular ones, Holbein pursued the truth by recording his subjects—both Protestants and Catholics—in honest, startling detail. Continue Reading »
Political messaging can make for bad art—but also for masterpieces. Continue Reading »
Modern people, despite being drawn to medieval aesthetics and artificats, cannot seem to bear to examine what those artifacts are modeled on: the intelligible order glimpsed by the eye of faith. Continue Reading »
Van Gogh didn’t reject the supernatural, but naturalized it. What terror there is in his paintings is the sublime terror evoked by the uncanny beauty of what Scripture identifies as the glory of God. Continue Reading »
Throughout his career, Bogdanovich stood apart from his New Hollywood peers, presenting a far milder view of human nature untainted by cynicism. Continue Reading »
The planned redesign of Notre-Dame de Paris’s interior is an atrocity that will turn the cathedral into little more than a Catholic Disneyland. Continue Reading »
We mustn't turn music, in its most complex and profound form, into a museum, dedicated only to reenacting the past. Continue Reading »
A Catholic understanding of art is about more than cherishing faded glories.
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To fashion a life of virtue is, perhaps, the creative act in which the image of God is most magnificently realized. Continue Reading »
Cluny Media republishes rare and hard-to-find classics of Catholic letters. Continue Reading »
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