Pity the beautiful (Caravaggio, Barnett, Congdon, da Vinci, Pourbus, Duccio)
Being struck and overcome by the beauty of Christ is a more real, more profound knowledge than mere rational deduction. [...] Of course, this is not just, or principally, a theological problem, but a problem of pastoral life, that has to foster the human person's encounter with the beauty of faith. All too often arguments fall on deaf ears because in our world too many contradictory arguments compete with one another, so much so that we are spontaneously reminded of the medieval theologians' description of reason, that it "has a wax nose': in other words, it can be pointed in any direction, if one is clever enough. Everything makes sense, is so convincing, whom should we trust? The encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart and in this way opens our eyes...
Paintings for Holy Week
Christ Washing the Apostle's Feet (Dirck van Baburen)
Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
The Last Supper (Pourbus)
Washing of feet (Duccio)
Christ in the Garden (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
The Taking of Christ (Caravaggio)
Cristo alla colonna (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
Cristo alla colonna (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
Crowning of Thorns (Caravaggio)
Scourging at the Pillar (Caravaggio)
The Deposition from the Cross by Caravaggio
Third Station of the Cross (Barnett)
Fifth Station of the Cross (Barnett)
Fifteenth Station of the Cross (Barnett)
Crocefisso 2 (William Congdon)
Vergine Regina (William Congdon)
Il Sopolcro (William Congdon)
Resurrezione (William Congdon)
