Tag Archives: Christian art history

malraux: art of pictorial fiction

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Dave

Andre Malraux’s The Metamorphosis of the Gods…The dawning Renaissance bids farewell to Eternity, dragons, and sacred art-Venus descends from Olympus to become a naked woman… Later ages, particularly the Renaissance, praised Giotto for his illusionism, his still relatively primitive, so … Continue reading →

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thebaid

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Dave

Monasticism at its most simple and essential level. At the time of the Thebaid, the Levant was sprinkled generously with ascetic extremists, the types who immured themselves in caves, those that wore theit time away in prayer and meditation and … Continue reading →

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