MAGNIFICAT: THE ART ESSAY OF THE MONTH Double Trinity with Saint Augustine and Saint Catherine of Siena by Anonymous (c. 1700–c. 1730) In Raphael’s famous School of Athens (c. 1510), the two philosophers …More
MAGNIFICAT: THE ART ESSAY OF THE MONTH
Double Trinity with Saint Augustine and Saint Catherine of Siena by Anonymous (c. 1700–c. 1730)
In Raphael’s famous School of Athens (c. 1510), the two philosophers at the focal center of the fresco point the viewer in different directions: Plato points up, to the spiritual world beyond what the eye can see, and Aristotle points down, to the material world open to the senses. The host of other figures in the image are all engaged in answering the question their gestures pose: to understand the world, do we begin by looking up, or by looking down?
Some two centuries later, an anonymous painter in Peru thought about this either/or question and decided to answer it: yes. To understand the world, he says, we can’t just look up or just look down—we look to Jesus, the one mediator between God and men (1 Tm 2:5) in whom heaven and earth meet.
Looking to Jesus
One glance at this masterpiece of early modern Peruvian art makes it clear who is at the center …More
Double Trinity with Saint Augustine and Saint Catherine of Siena by Anonymous (c. 1700–c. 1730)
In Raphael’s famous School of Athens (c. 1510), the two philosophers at the focal center of the fresco point the viewer in different directions: Plato points up, to the spiritual world beyond what the eye can see, and Aristotle points down, to the material world open to the senses. The host of other figures in the image are all engaged in answering the question their gestures pose: to understand the world, do we begin by looking up, or by looking down?
Some two centuries later, an anonymous painter in Peru thought about this either/or question and decided to answer it: yes. To understand the world, he says, we can’t just look up or just look down—we look to Jesus, the one mediator between God and men (1 Tm 2:5) in whom heaven and earth meet.
Looking to Jesus
One glance at this masterpiece of early modern Peruvian art makes it clear who is at the center …More
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