The Scandal of God Incarnate
When Max Ernst first displayed The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in 1926, the citizens of Cologne were aghast. The public outcry was…
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Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: The Lazarus Reliefs
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series by Naomi Billingsley, who will be writing on reflections on art at Chichester Cathedral….
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Review: The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy
Paroma Chatterjee. The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy: The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 297pp. 34 B/W, 16…
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Verge Conference 2016
“He [the reader] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”…
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Review: The Pathos of the Cross
Richard Viladesau. The Pathos of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts—The Baroque Era. Oxford, UK—New York, NY: Oxford University…
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Review: John Piper – The Fabric of Modernism
John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism marks the fiftieth anniversary of Piper’s High Altar tapestry in Chichester Cathedral by celebrating and exploring his textile…
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Review: The Bible as Visual Culture
John Harvey, The Bible as Visual Culture; When Text Becomes Image, The Bible in the Modern World 52 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press) 2013,…
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What the Resurrection Requires: The Via Crucis
Expressing his desire to paint a crucifixion scene, Édouard Manet once heralded the depth and power of the cross as a symbol: “The Crucifixion,…
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Review: The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame
Michael Camille, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009 xv + 377pp. Highly respected art…
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