Art, Movies, Music, and Literature Library


Architecture
"Old World Monasteries for New Generations," on The Cloisters (New York City)
"Building of Mystery," on The Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem)
"Protecting the Innocents," on the Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Italy)
"Immigrant Churches," on Saints Cyril and Methodius Church (Shiner, TX) and San Apollinare (Classe, Italy)

Decorative Arts
"Shared Stories in Metal," on the Freer Canteen
"Desperate," on the Byzantine mosaic Jesus Cures the Woman Who Bleeds
"Interrupted," on the early Christian mosaic Jesus Healing the Woman with an Issue of Blood
"Casting Lots," on Andrea Mantegna's altarpiece Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
"The Orant," on the mosaic of Saint Apollinaris in San Apollinare
"A Queen's Gift," on Jean de Touyl's Reliquary Shrine

Literature
"We Have Never Seen His Face," by Brett R. Dewey, on Shusako Endo's Silence
"Sabbath Blessings," by Willow Hambrick, on Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir and Molly Wolf's Angels and Dragons
"Deepening the Mystery of Freedom," by Heather Hughes, on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
"Left Behind and Getting Ahead," by David Lyle Jeffrey, on Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series
"Sharing Wisdom as an Act of Love," by David Lyle Jeffrey, on Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
"Love, Death, and Friendship in the Harry Potter Novels," by John Killinger
"God's Repentance-Enabling Forgiveness," by Ralph C. Wood, on Flannery O'Connor's short stories

Manuscript Illuminations
"Illuminating the Word," on The Saint John's Bible and the Nativity window, Chartres Cathedral
"In Her Heart," on Jesus Among the Doctors (Unknown artist)
"Lord Even of the Sabbath," on The Healing of the Wounded Hand, The Crippled Woman, and The Man Born Blind (Unknown artists)

Movies and Video Games
"Vocation Goes to the Movies," by Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, on The Apostle, Dead Man Walking, and Wise Blood
"Hungry Souls," by Thomas Hibbs, on Babette's Feast
"Avoiding the Mess in Mass Media," by Carl F. Hoover
"Making Moral Choices in Video Games," by J. Cameron Moore, on immersive fantasy games
"The Triumph of Spectacle," by Ralph C. Wood, on The Lord of the Rings

Music
"U2: Unexpected Prophets," by Steven R. Harmon
"Choral Music for Christmas [review]," by Mark J. Suderman

Paintings
"Host and Guest," on Alessandro Allori's Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
"Go and Do Likewise," on Jacopo Bassano's Good Samaritan and He Qi's The Good Samaritan
"Radiant with Great Splendor," on Bellini's Saint Francis in Ecstasy
"Enjoying a Wintry Park," on George Bellows's The Palisades
"A Gentle Embrace," on Blake's Mercy and Truth are Met Together
"The First Witness," on Bronzino's Christ Appears to Mary Magdalen (Noli me tangere)
"Blinded," on Pieter Bruegel [the Elder]'s The Blind Leading the Blind
"Saint George and the Dragon," on Burne-Jones's Saint George and the Dragon
"Confronting the Powers," on Caravaggio's The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
"Not the Righteous, But Sinners," on Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew
"Apostle to the Gentiles," on Caravaggio's The Conversion of Saint Paul
"Lasting Wounds," on Caravaggio's The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
"Beckoning the Hungry," on Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus
"My Redeemer Lives," on Carpaccio's Meditation on the Passion
"Our 'Dangerous Innocence,'" on Thomas Cole's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
"In Harmony with Nature," on Thomas Cole's The Oxbow
"Prayer in a Fourth Dimension," on Salvador Dalí's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
"A Mirror to Nature," on Asher B. Durand's Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York
"The Magi's Adoration," on Gentile da Fabriano's, Adoration of the Magi
"Judith's Co-conspirator," on Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes
"Susanna's Strength," on Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders
"The Shepherds' Adoration," on Domenico Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Shepherds and Hugo van der Goes' Adoration of the Shepherds
"Mary and the Women from Galilee," on Giotto's Lamentation and Flight into Egypt
"Dehumanized Prisoners," on Francisco de Goya's Third of May, 1808
"Horror and Invitation," on Guercino's The Betrayal of Christ
"A Gesture of Reconciliation," on Guercino's Return of the Prodigal Son
"Kingdom Come," on Hicks' Peaceable Kingdom
"An Ordered Neighborhood," on Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning and Nighthawks
"The Field of Experience and Sensation," on Edward Hopper's New York Movie and Sunlight in a Cafeteria
"Make a Joyful Noise," on Laura James' Psalm 100
"The Universality of Christ and His Teachings," on Laura James' Sermon on the Mount
"The Coming Light," on Georges de La Tour's The Dream of Saint Joseph
"Sharing Wisdom," on Lorenzetti's The Presentation in the Temple
"Peter's Shadow," on Masaccio's Peter Healing with His Shadow
"Just Watching," on Manet's Nana
"Casting Lots," on Andrea Mantegna's Crucifixion
"A Grandmother's Beauty," on Medearis's Godly Susan
"Confronted," on Michelangelo's's Last Judgment
"Sin's Landscape," on Michelangelo's Original Sin and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
"A Call to Prayer," on Millet's The Angelus
"Near the Cross of Jesus," on Lorenzo Monaco's The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist and Hendrik Terbrugghen's The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
"Back to the Future," on Morris's Day: Angel Holding a Sun
"Sir, I Have No One," on Murillo's Christ at the Pool of Bethesda
"A Wedding Story," on Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin
"Cherishing God's Forgiveness," on Poussin's Sacrament of Penance
"Unexpected Healing," Poussin's Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
"Liberation from Tyranny," on Raphael's Liberation of St. Peter
"Pursuing Knowledge," on Raphael's School of Athens
"Invoking God's Care," on Rembrandt's Jacob Blessing the Children of Joseph
"Without Hindrance," on Rembrandt's Paul in Prison
"Hands of the Father," on Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son
"Teaching Through Images," on Cosimo Rosselli's The Sermon on the Mount and Healing of the Leper
"The Voice in the Wilderness," on Georges Rouault's St. John the Baptist
"Joyful Recreation,"on Jan Steen's Skittle Players outside an Inn and David Teniers the Younger's The Game of Bowls and Trio of the Crossbow
"A School for Artists," on Stradano's The Practice of the Visual Arts
"Transcending Cultures," on Stradano's Crucifixion and He Qi's The Crucifixion
"Prepare the Way of the Lord," on Michele Tosini's Saint John the Baptist
"Water into Wine," on Michele Tosini's Marriage at Cana
"Isolation," on Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge
"Past the Blockade," on Turner's Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
"The Promise of Marriage," on Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Wedding
"Gathered by the Lottery," on Vincent van Gogh's The State Lottery
"Love that Crosses Ethnic Boundaries," on Marten van Heemskerck's Ruth and Naomi
"Intently Watching," on van Honthorst's Childhood of Christ
"Subtle Qualms," on van Reymerswaele's Money-Changer and His Wife
"Revelers," on Paolo Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi

Photography and Prints
"Apocalyptic Visions in Black and White," on Albrecht Dürer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Saint Michael and the Dragon
"Surrounded by Witnesses," on Leah Rene Gregoire's The Death of Saint Clare
"Women with Icons," by Jocelyn Mathewes
"What Is to Prevent Me from Being Baptized?" on Rembrandt's The Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch
"Under Assault," on Martin Schongauer's, Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by Demons
"Drawing James," on Paul Soupiset's James the Less, The Seed-James the Less, and Ex Libris-James the Less
"Photographs from a Captivated Heart," on Gerard Straub's When Did I See You Hungry?
"With Eyes of the Heart," by Roger Varland

Sculpture and Stained-Glass
"There Is No Health in Us," on Apollo Belvedere and Bernini's The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
"Yearning for God," on Bernini's The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
"The Penitence of Jerome," on Bernini's St. Jerome
"The Penitence of Mary Magdalen," on Donatello's The Penitent Magdalen
"Isolation," on Ezekiel's Eve Hearing the Voice
"Depicting Christ's Friends," on the Flemish sculpture The Last Supper and Domenico Ghirlandaio's The Last Supper
"Rebekah's Scheme," on Ghiberti's Story of Jacob and Esau
"Terrible Judgment," on Gislebertus' The Last Judgment
"Joyous Innocence," on Hetland's Teeming with Life
"The Sign of Jonah," on The Jonah Marbles, Early Christian, c. 270-280
"Exhuberant Praise," on Luca della Robbia's Cantoria and Donatello's Cantoria
"Strength and Fortitude," on Michelangelo's Moses
"A Startling Mystery," on Montauti's The Return of the Prodigal Son
"Humble Wisdom," by Emily Rodgers and Haley Stewart, on the Robbins Chapel Windows
"Falling," on Rodin's The Gates of Hell
"Repeating Realities," on Joshua Smith's Found Wasp Nest