Dr. Dennis Raverty is a retired associate professor of art history, specializing in art of the 19th and 20th centuries, and gives frequent presentations, both live and online.
Veteran African American artist Ben Jones has long explained his art as a corollary of his spiritual journey, having not only a formal beauty and a social message, but also a spiritual purpose.
St. Francis modeled a fully embodied approach to the spiritual life, by imitation of Christ's poverty and suffering and ultimately by the physical marks of the stigmata on his body.
To fully appreciate the painting within its historical context, we must understand that the frontier West was not merely a geographical region in the 19th-century imagination.
Part of the effect of this photographic installation is that these pieces are so unlike anything else in the church, which is in almost every respect entirely conventional in all its furnishings.
Spirit-Driven Stitchin’
Church of the Heavenly Rest
1085 Fifth Avenue
New York City
November 6-December 31
Posey Krakowsky’s sumptuous quilts not only sew various disparate fabrics, surface designs, and...
By Dennis Raverty
Edwin Howland Blashfield’s magnificent Angel with Flaming Sword, now on the rear wall in the nave of the Episcopal Church of the...
