Art for Holy Week

March 26, 2018 by Hank Reynolds

For Holy Week, we offer six paintings for your contemplation. (Click to enlarge.)

Johannes Vermeer: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (c. 1654)

Luca Giordano: Christ Cleansing the Temple (17th century)

Juan de Juanes: The Last Supper (16th century)

Johannes Oertel: Going Down to Gethsemane (1898)

Vincenzo Campi: Christ Being Nailed to the Cross (1575)

Titian: The Burial of Christ (1572)

And Then There's This . . .

Vince Bielski, When Classical Learning Meets Public Education the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic. “Classical education, whose name gained traction in the 1980s to evoke the movement’s focus on liberal arts and the Western canon, is struggling to overcome local political opposition.”

Peter Wood, After College: The Coming Cultural Collapse of Higher Education. “Students graduate with a veneer of knowledge rather than a core. An increasingly obsolescent institution has wedded itself to an increasingly noisome cultural stance.”

Anthony Esolen, Heap Songs Upon Their Heads. “We are the most beauty-starved people, I am persuaded, who have ever trod the earth.”

Gregory Wolfe, The Wound of Beauty. “The time has come to bring beauty back, to give it the glass slipper and invite it to the prom.”