Monday, June 29, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke,
shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

This stunning image is best seen expanded to as full a size as your screen can accommodate. It is from the Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio ("The Martorana"), Palermo, Sicily. Dr Richard Strake (of ChristianIconography.info) explains that this image, so strongly Byzantine in its form, incorporates several Western elements, since it was executed by an Orthodox official for a Catholic ruler. Learn more about the image on the Christian Iconography website.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.

blogspot stats