July MagnIficat: THE COVER OF THE MONTH Entering into Vision by Pierre-Marie Dumont This “portrait” of Mary Magdalene is a detail from Santi di Tito’s (1536–1603) masterpiece The Vision of Saint …More
July MagnIficat: THE COVER OF THE MONTH
Entering into Vision by Pierre-Marie Dumont
This “portrait” of Mary Magdalene is a detail from Santi di Tito’s (1536–1603) masterpiece The Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas, painted in 1593 for the church of the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence. One can still contemplate it there today before going on to admire Fra Angelico’s famed frescoes on the walls of the convent itself. The “vision” painted by Santi di Tito does not purport to illustrate either of the two famous visions granted to Saint Thomas Aquinas, first in Paris and then in Naples, in 1273. Rather than Saint Thomas experiencing a vision, the painting offers to our view—in his stead, so to speak—a way of seeing enjoyed by him1, first intellectual, then sensitive, that of the Eucharistic mystery as he describes it in both his Summa Theologiae and his admirable hymns and antiphons.
Contemplation of the Eucharistic mystery
The viewer of this work is made the privileged witness of …More
Entering into Vision by Pierre-Marie Dumont
This “portrait” of Mary Magdalene is a detail from Santi di Tito’s (1536–1603) masterpiece The Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas, painted in 1593 for the church of the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence. One can still contemplate it there today before going on to admire Fra Angelico’s famed frescoes on the walls of the convent itself. The “vision” painted by Santi di Tito does not purport to illustrate either of the two famous visions granted to Saint Thomas Aquinas, first in Paris and then in Naples, in 1273. Rather than Saint Thomas experiencing a vision, the painting offers to our view—in his stead, so to speak—a way of seeing enjoyed by him1, first intellectual, then sensitive, that of the Eucharistic mystery as he describes it in both his Summa Theologiae and his admirable hymns and antiphons.
Contemplation of the Eucharistic mystery
The viewer of this work is made the privileged witness of …More