[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams continues with Jake Morley reflecting on the Great Antiphon O Key of David. For more information on this series, see our Series Launch.] O Key of…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This week Karen McClain Kiefer reflects on the antiphon ‘O Root of Jesse’ and the icon The Tree of Jesse. Gustav Klimt’s Tree of Life is also brought in for consideration. For more information on this series, see our Series…
Light coming through a stained-glass window is one of those effects unique to the church space—we can hardly witness it anywhere else. Despite, or perhaps because of my amateur love for medieval art history, I was always convinced that the…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams continues with Letizia Morley reflecting on the Great Antiphon O Adonai (Lord) and Domenichino’s seventeenth-century painting Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush. For more…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams begins with Mariah Ziemer’s reflection on the Great Antiphon O Wisdom and the 17th Century painting Holy Wisdom. For more information on this series, see…
Jane Williams, The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day from Advent to Epiphany (London: SPCK, 2018). Softcover, 176 pages. £9.99. Transpositions editors, reflectors, and readers so enjoyed the series we did on The Art of Lent by Sister Wendy…
David Brown and Gavin Hopps. The Extravagance of Music. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 352 pp. £64.99 (hardcover) / £59.99 (softcover). C. S. Lewis opens the preface to his little-known collection Rehabilitations and Other Essays by saying, ‘A man…
‘He was not a bad man but he was also not a nice man either. I am not sure that being nice was actually a part of his job’. – Emma Larsimon When one is looking to be inspired…
At the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, there is a room featuring a number of paintings by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Vibrant in colour and detail, many of Bruegel’s paintings can appear like a Renaissance version of a…