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THE ARTIST AS INTERPRETER OF BIBLICAL MOMENTS

Five Wednesday evenings, March 12 to April 9, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., led by Geoffrey E. Wood, S.S.L., S.T.D.

From the days of the catacombs to the age of the Baroque the art of Western culture has been primarily a sacred or sacramental art. Such art flourished especially in the Greek and Latin regions of Europe even while Northern Europe became inclined to white wash the walls of churches and keep iconography to a minimum.
This course will provide a survey of that sacred or sacramental art with a special emphasis upon Caravaggio (c. 1600) and with additional attention to his immediate predecessors and contemporaries. In fostering such art the Church gave its artists the opportunity to interpret pictorially salient characters and events of Scripture. This course will try to assess just what those artists saw in episodes such as the Call of Matthew or Judith's decapitation of Holofernes or Paul's experience on the road to Damascus. Videos and slides will be used to bring focus to our discussions, and if time permits an excursion into some northern artists such as Vermeer as well as into what might be called "sacred or sacramental" in the work of the more recent impressionists will be undertaken.
This will not be an art course such as one might find on a secular college campus. Its quest will be of a spiritual and theological nature.
Dr. Wood has a Ph.D. in Sacred Theology from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., and a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from Rome's Pontifical Bible University. He has taught at Catholic University, Swarthmore and Bucknell University.
Cost: $70. (Bring a friend free.) Please make reservations.

2003

Five Wednesday evenings,
March 12 to April 9,
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.