Limiting this list only to sacred art paintings, I’ve come up with a list of the top ten most famous, influential, historical, beautiful, and edifying Catholic paintings. The list is limited to paintings with explicitly religious themes painted by artists for a Catholic audience. In the end it was difficult to narrow it down to a top 10, […]
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This school year I have been slowly making my way through Etienne Gilson’s book The Arts of the Beautiful. I have been doing this with some other colleagues of mine at Glendale Prep. We’ve been getting together and discussing the book as part of a “Philosophy of Beauty” reading group. It was one of my “intellectual projects” […]
Category: A Christian Poet in the Modern World, Aesthetics, Aristotle, Art, Arts of the Beautiful, beauty, claritas, consonantia, Etienne Gilson, Harold Weatherby, integritas, It Is What It Is, Jacques Maritain, Joyce, Kant, Pedantriactivity, Peeping Thomists, Philosophy, Plato, The Keen Delight, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist Aesthetic, Umberto Eco
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