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This is the online newsletter for the Associate for Liturgy in the Office of Pastoral Ministry for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose, California.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Neo-Classical example



Odalisque in Grisaille, 1824–34
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Workshop (French, 1780–1867)

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=1&item=38%2E65

Neo-classicism: mid 18th to early 19th – severe, unemotional form of art harkening back to the style of ancient Greece and Rome; rxn to overbred rococo and emotional baroque; part of general revival of classical thought which was of some importance in the American and French revolutions – Canova, Ingres, Mengs

Nazarene example



Friedrich Johann Overbeck, (1789 - 1869)
The Triumph of Religion in the Arts

http://www.hermitagerooms.com/exhibitions/friedrich/triumphofreligion.asp




Medieval Art example



Giotto. "The Lamentation." Fresco. 1305.

http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter7/image94.html

Beuronese examples



The Assumption and Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint John's University




The Flight Into Egypt
Saint John's University

http://www2.csbsju.edu/museum/beuron/




The Blue Harpist - Liturgical Prayer Angels
Conception Abbey




The Martyr's Palm - The Passion Angels
Conception Abbey

http://www.conceptionabbey.org/Basilica/Angels/angeltofc.htm