Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. When Margarita and I visit Oxford, we regularly attend Mass at the Oxford Oratory. I was excited, therefore, when a friend and parishioner at the Oxford Oratory drew my attention to this spectacular development in its ongoing restoration project. The white paint […]
Source: David Clayton via The Way of Beauty In a recently posted an article I discussed the legitimacy of representing Christ or Our Lady as an ethnicity that is not historically accurate. In this post I want to consider situations when it might not be appropriate. Consider first some well […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org. Staggeringly beautiful Catholic sacred art and church architectural forms carved into the rock in an ancient salt mine in Poland by miners. Thank you to Phil Burgess for bringing to my attention these staggering pictures of a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near […]
Source: David Clayton vis thewayofbeauty.org. Reprinted with permission. How the Cursing Psalms Helped Schoolchildren During the Occupation of World War Two Recently I had an enjoyable conversation with a director of music at a protestant seminary about about the singing of the psalms. He grew up in a Dutch Reformed […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.orgReprinted with permission. I received an interesting email from my friend, artist James Gillick the other day. Jim, as some regular readers will know, is a Catholic artist who has managed to make a good living by selling his work to the secular market. This is […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.orgReprinted with permission. ‘Try this for 30 days and if you don’t like it we’ll return your misery with interest!’ More than thirty years ago, by chance, I met a man called David Birtwistle who asked me this question: are you as happy as you can […]
Source: Way of Beauty, Episode 65: Charlie Deist on the Post-Covid-19 RESET via YouTube This conversation was sparked off by Charlie’s newsletter for anaturalmethod.com. He is imagining how we can respond personally to what is happening and build community and live more healthily. In his outlook, we don’t need expensive, […]
Source: thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. Via David Clayton:Pontifex University Press is publishing my book on the place of the nude in Christian art. With a foreword written by Dr Christopher Blum (of the Augustine Institute), Painting the Nude: The Theology of the Body and Representation of Man in Christian Art will be of […]