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CutlerB
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Whether it’s music, paintings, architecture, sculpture… I’d like to know: What’s your favourite Catholic piece of art? 
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rfournier103
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The Last Supper.
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YoungTradCath
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I can tolerate anything except something made of entirely useless, meaningless splatters and splotches, chunks of metal with barely a form, and frantic collections of acute angles, no matter how much “love” and “passion” and “his life’s agony” was put in it.
Essentially I can appreciate anything except the majority of modern art, which I find totally and entirely and absolutely and positively irreconcilable with 99.999% of what came before it, and therefore I cannot respect it in an academic or thematic or artistic sense. It cannot be reconciled.
However, I am all for just about anything, and I mean anything, else.
What’s my favorite? I shall have some thinking to do.
Essentially I can appreciate anything except the majority of modern art, which I find totally and entirely and absolutely and positively irreconcilable with 99.999% of what came before it, and therefore I cannot respect it in an academic or thematic or artistic sense. It cannot be reconciled.
However, I am all for just about anything, and I mean anything, else.
What’s my favorite? I shall have some thinking to do.
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CutlerB
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My thoughts exactly! How I have been longing for someone to say this! Spot on, my friend.
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boomerang
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The Verdun Altar:
“The Verdun Altar is located at the Klosterneuburg Monastery in Austria. It was made in c.1181 and it is named after Nicholas of Verdun. Its composition contains detailed decorative panels which depict biblical scenes. . The work is divided into 3 compartments that are comprised out of 45 copper squares. It is also split into 3 rows due to biblical reference and we have the central theme being the life of Jesus while the adjacent sides illustrate the life of Adam and Noah or David and the Babylonian captivity. The Medium used for this work is called champlevé enamel work where a metal base with compartments is filled with enamel.”
stroccoglencove.com/mass-scarament/VerdunnAltar.htm
There are so many wonderful works of art out there, it’s hard to decide.
“The Verdun Altar is located at the Klosterneuburg Monastery in Austria. It was made in c.1181 and it is named after Nicholas of Verdun. Its composition contains detailed decorative panels which depict biblical scenes. . The work is divided into 3 compartments that are comprised out of 45 copper squares. It is also split into 3 rows due to biblical reference and we have the central theme being the life of Jesus while the adjacent sides illustrate the life of Adam and Noah or David and the Babylonian captivity. The Medium used for this work is called champlevé enamel work where a metal base with compartments is filled with enamel.”
stroccoglencove.com/mass-scarament/VerdunnAltar.htm
There are so many wonderful works of art out there, it’s hard to decide.
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Mumbles140
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The scene depicting the Battle of Heaven in the Vatican Museum (on the walk to the Sistine Chapel).
Also, the Statue of St. Bartholomew representing his martyrdom.
Also, the Statue of St. Bartholomew representing his martyrdom.
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Mumbles140
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One more, as I was just in Lourdes - the Statue of the Crowned Virgin
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yankee15
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Each time I visit Rome, I make it a point to see Michelangelo’s Moses in St. Peter in Chains Church. It is so powerful that legend has it that Michelangelo threw his scalpel at it when he was finished and yelled “Speak!”
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BostonStrong
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Hieronymus Bosch was amazing, but a very grim artist- his paintings were of sinners being cast into Hell
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triumphguy
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Medieval Cathedrals and especially the stained glass.Whether it’s music, paintings, architecture, sculpture… I’d like to know: What’s your favourite Catholic piece of art?
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Jonathon
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My absolute favorite.
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CB_Catholic
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The Pieta by Michelangelo
The Annunciation by Tanner (although I don’t think Tanner was Catholic)
The Annunciation by Tanner (although I don’t think Tanner was Catholic)
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Oneofthewomen
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I love all types of sacred art, some better than others, but if I had to pick a favorite painting, it would be probably be Rembrandt’s “Return of the Prodigal Son” or maybe Salvador Dali’s “The Last Supper”
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Immacolata
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As for genres of Catholic art, I love paintings of Our Lady (as Our Lady of Grace, as well as Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Lourdes, and Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart), as well as paintings of Our Lord (as the Good Shepherd, as well as of Him at the Last Supper). I particularly enjoy statuary of Our Lord and Our Lady, although I do love paintings (in the form of the genres mentioned previously).
As for specific paintings or sculptures, I would say (one of) my (many) favorite painting(s) of Our Lady is:
Madonna in Sorrow; Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
I am unable to describe why I hold an affinity for this painting, but I believe due to it being the first painting of Our Lady (aside from Nativity depictions) I had seen. I find her solemn expression, along with her hands clasped in prayer (following the Passion of her Son), to be particularly spiritual.
As mentioned, I love the depiction of Our Lord as the Good Shepherd. I find the parable of the Good Shepherd particularly inspirational:
http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/12/0y66.jpg
The Good Shepherd; Holy Card
As for statues, a favorite statue would be the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, sculpted in 1947 by Jose Thedim, and on October 13th, the statue was blessed in Fatima. Since then, the statue has visited more than 100 countries (including Russia):
http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5818/ug7r.jpg
Our Lady of Fatima; Statue
…and of course:
As for specific paintings or sculptures, I would say (one of) my (many) favorite painting(s) of Our Lady is:
Madonna in Sorrow; Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
I am unable to describe why I hold an affinity for this painting, but I believe due to it being the first painting of Our Lady (aside from Nativity depictions) I had seen. I find her solemn expression, along with her hands clasped in prayer (following the Passion of her Son), to be particularly spiritual.
As mentioned, I love the depiction of Our Lord as the Good Shepherd. I find the parable of the Good Shepherd particularly inspirational:
http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/12/0y66.jpg
The Good Shepherd; Holy Card
As for statues, a favorite statue would be the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, sculpted in 1947 by Jose Thedim, and on October 13th, the statue was blessed in Fatima. Since then, the statue has visited more than 100 countries (including Russia):
http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5818/ug7r.jpg
Our Lady of Fatima; Statue
…and of course:
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Domnall
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Dali did some really amazing art; I love his version of the last supper.
However, I think my favorite is his painting of the crucifixion, “Corpus Hypercubus.”
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Oneofthewomen
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I like this one too! “Modern/Post-modern” art is not my favortie genre, but there are some examples, especially Dali’s work, that are simply stunning!
A deacon friend of mine has a framed print of this in his office. It makes quite the statement!
“Modern/Post-modern” art is not my favortie genre, but there are some examples, especially Dali’s work, that are simply stunning!A deacon friend of mine has a framed print of this in his office. It makes quite the statement!
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andrewstx
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My favorite type of art is French Impressionism, it still has reconiseable shapes and forms but it is not photo realism.
I know Gaugin did religious works and others I am sure.
Personally I am not that crazy about representational realism. After all we have had cameras for nearly 200 years.
So much representational art is just too sentimental, that I don’t like and I don’t feel is real art.
I know Gaugin did religious works and others I am sure.
Personally I am not that crazy about representational realism. After all we have had cameras for nearly 200 years.
So much representational art is just too sentimental, that I don’t like and I don’t feel is real art.
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