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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Cattainin (Caterina) Campodonico

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Orengo, Lorenzo 1838-1909 Monument to Cattainin (Caterina) Campodonico 1881 Campo Santo di Staglieno, Genova, Liguria, Italy Cate...

Allegory of Mortality

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Punt, Jan 1711-1779 Allegory of Mortality Chalk (black and red), watercolour (grey) on paper Height: 16.8 cm; Width: 13.5 cm Courtauld Art G...
Saturday, November 17, 2007

Smoking Popes and Holy Smokes

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Fr Ray Blake and Mac McLernon have reminded us smokers of the great debt we owe Pope Benedict XIII of blessed memory. In 1624, on the logic...
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Mother Jeronima de la Asuncion

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VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y (b. 1599, Sevilla, d. 1660, Madrid) Abbess Jerónima de la Fuente 1620 Oil on canvas, 162 x 107,5 cm M...

The World

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TURNER, Joseph Mallord William (b. 1775, London, d. 1851, Chelsea) War, the Exile and the Rock Limpet 1842 Oil on canvas, 79,5 x 79,5 cm Ta...

The Parting of the Red Sea

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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Parting of the Red Sea , 1966, Private collection in New York

Pope John Paul II

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Blessed John XXIII: the last photo ?

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Psalm 52

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Psalm 52 Psalter. Autun, ca. 1470. Signatuur 76 E 8. Fol. 21r Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland The Hague The Steadfast Love of God Endure...
Friday, November 16, 2007

A New Caravaggio

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Caravaggio I bari 1594-1595 Oil on canvas; 94,15 x 131,25cm Fort Worth (Texas), Kimbell Art Museum I Bari or The Cardsharps is a well known...

A Small Step in the Process Toward Reunion ?

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The Times today under the banner Vatican joins historic talks to end 950-year rift with Orthodox church has a story on the Ravenna Declarat...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Madonna with the Christ child

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Jean Fouquet (1420 - 1481) The Madonna with the Christ child Book of Hours of Simon de Varie Paris, 1455; Tours, c. 1455. Vellum, 99 leaves,...

Pilgrimage at Sunset (Sunrise)

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FRIEDRICH, Caspar David (b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden) Pilgrimage at Sunset (Sunrise) 1805 Sepia, 405 x 620 mm Kunstsammlungen, Wei...

The Church from an Asian perspective: too Westernised and too intellectual ?

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In The Times there is an interesting obituary of the late Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, former Bishop of Yokohama and former president of t...
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The Missionary Congregation of St Gemma Galgani.

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The Italian journal Adista reports on an unfortunate and disturbing dispute between Bishop Marcello Semeraro, Bishop of Albano and the Miss...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.

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Today Benedict XVI expressed his joy at being able to pray before the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, which are in Rome accompanied by pil...

Chatterton

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Henry Wallis 1830-1916 Chatterton 1856 Oil on canvas support: 622 x 933 mm frame: 905 x 1205 x 132 mm; 24 1/2 x 36 3/4 inches painting The ...

Manchester: Tintoretto

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TINTORETTO (b. 1518, Venezia, d. 1594, Venezia) Esther before Ahasuerus 1547-48 Oil on canvas, 207,4 x 273 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Anot...

Manchester: St Francis

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BELLINI, Giovanni (b. ca. 1426, Venezia, d. 1516, Venezia) St Francis in Ecstasy 1480-85 Oil on panel, 120 x 137 cm Frick Collection, New Yo...

“The Greatest Show on Earth” : Manchester 1857

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Lindsay Duguid in the TLS recounts “The Greatest Show on Earth” in Manchester 1857: Two suits of sixteenth-century armour, positioned betwe...