Salve Regina: the Season’s Antiphon
Leonardo da Vinci, a study of the Head of Madonna, c. 1484 CE. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Marian Antiphons The Marian antiphons are: Alma Redemptoris Mater, “Kindly Mother of the Redeemer” (Advent...
View ArticleHymn of the Cherubim
In the forest at winter by Isaac Levitan, 1855 (WikiArt.org.) Let this be my shortest post. The painting is by Isaac Levitan and the music, Tchaikovsky‘s. We have already heard the “Hymn of the...
View ArticleThe Eastern Church’s Theotokos
Theotokos of Vladimir, tempera on panel, 104 x 69 cm, painted about 1130 in Constantinople (Wiki2.org.) Icons the Eastern Church the Western Church In Eastern or Orthodox Churches, the Western Church’s...
View ArticleThe Negro-Spiritual
The Negro-Spiritual is a genre in music, created by Black slaves before emancipation, and which has endured. As you know, Frederick Douglass’ textbook was the Bible. The Bible is not easy to read but...
View ArticleGod the Architect
God the GeometerIci crie Dex ciel et terre, soleil et lune et toz elemenz Science, and particularly geometry and astronomy, was linked directly to the divine for most medieval scholars. Since God...
View ArticleBibles moralisées: 13th-century France
Oxford-Paris-Londres Our four Bibles are the following: Codex Vindobonensis 2554 ViennaCodex Vindobonensis 1179 (Vienna)Bible moralisée de saint Louis (Toledo) *Bible moralisée Oxford-Paris-Londres...
View ArticleOn the Bibles Moralisées
Die Schöpfung from Europe a Prophecy, by William Blake (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In an earlier post, I mentioned that Pierre Séguier owned the French collection (Paris) of the Oxford-Paris-Londres...
View ArticleWhy hast Thou forsaken me?
Jesus Christ Pantokrator Agony in the Garden by El Greco The seven sayings of Jesus on the cross Ten years ago, I published a post on the Canonical hours and noted that literary critic Northrop Frye...
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