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2 days ago · Join Art and Religion Fellow Dr Siobhán Jolley in this contemplation of Abraham’s response to the call to sacrifice his son. Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4 - 5 pm. Available online only.
4 days ago · Discover Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus’ on Tuesday 11th June with expert curator Dr. Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Acting Curator of Later Italian, Spanish and French Paintings at the National Gallery, London.
- Botanic Gardens, Belfast, BT9 5AB
- June 11, 2024
4 days ago · In 2018, I embarked on a four-year journey to paint a copy of “David with the Head of Goliath,” which was created by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) and is today always on view at Rome’s Galleria Borghese.
3 days ago · The popular historical account, written by Caravaggio’s contemporary Giovanni Baglione, holds that Cerasi rejected the first versions of both “Conversion” and “Crucifixion,” requiring the artist to paint the revisions that now hang in the chapel.
4 days ago · Unfair though it may be, Caravaggio is perhaps best known for his graphic depictions of violence and brutality. Arguably the most graphic is this Biblical scene, which features a decapitation actually in progress, and whose most memorable feature is the visual "scream" of the victim. Hint. The Sacrifice of Isaac.
3 days ago · Episode 282 – Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”. Painted for the Capuchin fathers at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Messina, Sicily, in 1609, Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds” is a moving spiritual scene within an impoverished and dilapidated setting.
4 days ago · The divide in our Church between people who believe in the richness and the rightness of her theological tradition and those who do not is, in many ways, not an equal divide. The inequality should be a comfort to those who hold, as I do, that the casual dismissal of past customs and hard-won and well-defined truths is foolish, even if all you ...
