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Who will convert the South?

Roman Catholics or Orthodox?

The Way of Beauty

CWR: Finding the Way of Beauty by Carrie Gress, Ph.D.
Author and artist David Clayton on living the “via pulchritudinis” in our daily lives.

Is a Coloring Book Respectful Enough of Iconography?

Even if it is an icon depicting a modern Western devotion, the Sacred Heart of Jesus?

NLM: New Coloring Book for Children on the Sacred Heart of Jesus by David Clayton

Something for the nieces and nephews?

A Cultural Center as an Engine of the New Evangelization?

Post by The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home.

Another Review of The Little Oratory

Post by Sophia Institute Press.

The Little Oratory

Post by Sophia Institute Press.

It's too early to say.

NLM: Has Pope Francis Saved Western Culture? by David Clayton

Perhaps he should have been more specific and referred to Anglophone culture.

An Alternative to Neo-Gothic

Dominican House Chapel, Lviv - it is located in Eastern Europe, and so icons would be more appropriate than neo-Gothic statues and the like. Still, I think it would be helpful to the recovery of liturgical piety in the Roman-rite if we recovered the use of icons. David Clayton is trying to recover a Western tradition of iconography - there is a workshop this summer (and a class in Kansas).

AT NLM David Clayton has a post on some paintings by Kiko Arguello.



Icons
Some more icons?
Chapel icons depict mysteries of salvation history By Roxanne King

Some claim that he is orthodox, despite the group's liturgical practices, but is this the case?

Part of a comment by Matthew Alderman:

If a western painter is going to do something Byzantine an artist ought to look at 'our' own equivalent--Cimabue, the early Italians, etc., which are both iconic and liturgically western. (I'd also prefer they remembered Van Eyck and van der Weyden as well, of course.) The appeal of modern Byzantine iconography for many in the west is I think they assume it is 'primitive' and somehow 'better' or 'more authentic' than 'decadent' Renaissance or Medieval art. The reasoning behind this is a little insulting or patronizing to the Byzantines--Byzantine art, properly understood, is anything but crude and primitive and is the result of centuries of refinement; it has never been as static as people assume. Indeed, some of the earliest versions of it are rather more 'realistic' than its modern form. Let us appreciate Byzantine art for what it is, for the right reasons--and also not forget our own tradition, which has room for both Byzantine equivalents, and also our own more uniquely western productions.

Latin iconographers could return to the examples given by earlier Latin artists. But why can't there be some measure of enrichment from the East as well?