Entries from 2020-08-04 to 1 day

Early Protestant Antipathy Towards Art (+ Iconoclasm)

Summary Since the middle of the 16th century religious art had come entirely to an end in all the Protestant parts of Germany . . . Nothing but sectarian narrowness could deny that German . . . art stood higher before the Reformation than …

Give Art for Christmas

One of the most successful Christmas presents–in the sense of being truly surprising and appreciated–that I have ever given was a work of art. We had just moved to the snowy tundra of Wisconsin and were missing our native Oklahoma. An art …