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Seven sacraments depicted in art at the National Gallery in Washington

In these difficult times of pandemic, we may miss experiencing the sacraments instituted by Christ. We also miss being able to go to museums and see great art in person. Yet thanks to modern technology, we can use this time to re-imagine the original context and meaning of many artworks that have been separated and put on museum walls. A great example of this is the Seven Sacraments series painted by Nicolas Poussin around 1640. The National Gallery of Art in Washington owns one of those pictures, “The Baptism of Christ.”

9/16/20

Nora Hamerman | For the Catholic Herald

Pandemic inspires artist to create icon of Christ as healer

5/12/20

By MICHELLE MARTIN | Catholic News Service

Canadian artist who brought Gospel values to children dies of COVID-19

French Canadian artist Claude Lafortune, who hosted children's programs based on the Gospel on national television, died of COVID-19 April 19. He was 83.

5/4/20

By PHILIPPE VAILLANCOURT | Catholic News Service
Catholic art masterpieces you can see from home

The museums are closed, and travel has been stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the experience of great works of art that expand our cultural horizons and deepen our faith is not something we need to deny ourselves in this Lenten period when we are mostly stuck at home or laboring on the front lines of the health care system. Thanks to the internet, advances in photography and the farsighted efforts of some great museums, videos are available that can bring us close to masterpieces.More

4/1/20

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

Falls Church students find aboriginal art is instructive, healing

As the world watched news accounts of Australian bushfires engulfing more than 12 million acres of land from the end of 2019 into early 2020, sixth-graders at St. James Catholic School in Falls Church were studying aboriginal Australians in social studies class with Maureen St. Pierre, and creating pre-language symbolic art with teacher Daniela Shumate.More

3/2/20

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Christ at center of Spanish sculptor’s art

For the first time, the work of celebrated Spanish sculptor Alonso Berruguete is being featured at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. More

1/10/20

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

‘The most beautiful head of the Savior’

When Andrea del Verrocchio’s bronze sculpture of “Christ and St. Thomas” was installed in its niche overlooking a busy street in Florence in 1483, it so awed the Florentines that one writer hailed it as “the most beautiful head of the Savior ever made.” More

11/7/19

By NORA HAMERMAN | For the Catholic Herald

A photographic and artistic adventure in Italy

Catholic Herald Production Coordinator Stacy Rausch took a solo trip through the Italian countryside - making art and photographing her experiences in Rome, Ischia di Castro, Orvieto, Assisi and Florence.More

7/26/19

Stacy Rausch | Catholic Herald Production Coordinator

Da Vinci's 'St. Jerome' painting on loan to the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a painting by the artist that will draw crowds but also pay solemn tribute to the larger-than-life Italian Renaissance painter, architect and inventor.More

7/17/19

By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service

Our Lady inspires Fairfax woman to pick up painting

The Korean-American grandmother of 13 has taken up not only Byzantine iconography but oriental-style painting, too. More

7/8/19

Zoey Maraist | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

Tintoretto, Renaissance artist of charity

The San Trovaso “Last Supper” is one of 46 paintings and 10 drawings in the exhibition: “Tintoretto, Artist of Renaissance Venice,” on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through July 7. The painting, which once faced Tintoretto’s “Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet,” a masterpiece now in the National Gallery of London, is very difficult to see in the dark, narrow chapel.More

3/29/19

Nora Hamerman | Special to the Catholic Herald

Watercolors to welcome spring

St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax welcomes spring with an art class on floral watercolor painting March 7. The event is part of a series organized by the parish’s Women’s Group, which provided art classes by a local artist and parishioner throughout the winter. COURTESY More

3/14/19

Artist Betsy Farr harmonizes faith and flora

In a tiny basement workroom in Manassas, botanical artist Margaret Elizabeth “Betsy” Farr blends the flora of Northern Virginia with images of saints from across the globe to create unique religious imagery. Surrounded by 19th-century Catholic lithographs while listening to choral work, such as Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, Farr paints with watercolor on 140-pound Fabriano cotton paper, frequently including metal leaf.More

3/5/19

Zita B. Fletcher | Catholic Herald Multimedia Journalist

An artist’s pilgrimage with Mary

I’ve recently returned from a pilgrimage with Our Lady of Guadalupe. It did not involve traveling to Mexico however. Rather, it was an artistic pilgrimage that took place in the basement of my parents’ home, where for the past six years, I have worked to create a life-size paper mosaic of Our Lady. More

12/13/18

Ashleigh Kassock | Catholic Herald Multimedia Designer

Russian art on display at the Vatican

In another example of the "diplomacy of art," the Vatican inaugurated a landmark exhibit of "spiritual" masterpieces from Moscow's famed Tretyakov Gallery and other state galleries in Russia.More

11/28/18

By CAROL GLATZ | Catholic News Service

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