Visual Arts

The Catholic Martyrs of Neilson Carlin: Traditional Painting Renewed

The golden halo surrounding Father Jacques Hamel’s face and the golden halo surrounding the Eucharist gently held in Father Hamel’s old hands...

Sacred Artists for the Eucharistic Revival

Picture it (above): The St. Edmund’s Sacred Art Institute located in Mystic, CT has issued a call to U.S. artists for entries...

Dante in Indiana-and in D.C.

There couldn’t be a work of literature more “medieval” than Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It’s suffused with the scholastic philosophy of the...

St. Kateri’s Gaze and the Iconography of John B. Giuliani

St. Kateri Tekakwitha “the Lily of the Mohawks” was born in the village of Ossernenon in present-day New York State, to Mohawk...

Archbishop Cordileone’s New Renaissance in Sacred Music

As my mother was dying this past October—and at age 100 and fading, she was obviously not going to be with us...

The Carlucci Betrayal: The Latest American Gangster Breaking Good

A Review of Robert B. Wilkins and Sarah Cortez’s The Carlucci Betrayal (Texas, White Bird Publications, 2021) On January 10, 1999, The...

Dan DeLouise: On Painting Christ Crucified

Stroll the wide sidewalks of downtown’s Main Street in seaside Rockport, Massachusetts, home of one of the U.S.’s oldest artist colonies. You’ll...

The Last Vermeer: Is There in Truth no Beauty?

  The Oscars just tanked. Beautiful small but barely-watched movies, combined with boring woke politics, produced an epic collapse in ratings. But...

Kim Ki-Chang: A Korean Caravaggio?: Empathy and Intuition in the Life of Jesus Series

Comparing Kim Ki-chang to Caravaggio may seem paradoxical: the one bold and aggressive figures, the other delicate and restrained watercolors. But then,...

The Great Renaissance Artist You’ve Never Seen Before

The National Gallery of Art has put on an extraordinary exhibit of a great Renaissance artist who is almost unknown outside his...

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