Like a bulldozer, industrialization plowed into Victorian England in the 19th century. Along with its positive impacts, such as rising incomes for some, new consumer goods for those who could afford them, and automated services for the rich, there were drawbacks. The Industrial Revolution changed the way Victorian society lived and worked as people moved…
Painting the Past: Dutch Artist Brings Ancient Rome to Life
April 3, 2022
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Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for the Week of April 3
This week, we look at a film about how today’s wired world separates people, and at a Japanese series featuring a blind, honorable swordsman. New Release ‘The Contractor’ James Harper (Chris Pine) is an ex-Special Forces soldier who joins a private contracting agency in order to support his loving family. Unfortunately, while on a black…
What the World Needs Now: Grace, Harmony, and Raphael
When darkness seems to shroud the world, traditional art can help. Art’s ultimate role is to uplift us by reminding us of how to be good, true, and the best we can be. When traditional artists create such enduring art, it can awaken our innate goodness. The works of Italian Renaissance master Raffaello Sanzio (better…
Reviewing 2021, Part 4: Asking the Delicate Question of ‘How?’
What is the last question that every thinking person needs to address if they are to live a full and fulfilling life? So far, we first considered where our culture stands today on spiritual matters. Then, we considered some questions: In the second article, we looked at why existence exists; then in the third article, we…
The Power and Beauty of Great Verse: Celebrating National Poetry Month
March 29, 2022
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April, lovely April. Scraggly March with its lion’s entrance and lamb’s departure has at last taken a final bow, and April now steps to the stage. Associated with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and derived from the Latin “aperire,” meaning “to open,” April waves her magic wand and turns lawns from brown to effervescent…
Foolish Wisdom: Edward R. Sill’s ‘A Fool’s Prayer’
March 28, 2022
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In his poem “The Fool’s Prayer,” Edward R. Sill uses the king’s jester to show that we are all fools and our prayers are not what they should be. The jester is the wisest because he acknowledges his folly. Though we think we are wise, he proves that we are all fools. G.K. Chesterton agrees:…
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Coins, Cameos, and Public Monuments
March 27, 2022
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Michelangelo was reputed to have been able to see a sculpted figure within a block of marble before he even began. So it was with the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907). “St. Gaudens had a gift of making one ‘see things.’… It was precisely because he was so intently an artist that his mental vision…
The First Lady of Manners: A Look at Emily Post
Some American books not only are bestsellers, but they may also profoundly influence American culture and society. Whether they’ve read Mark Twain or not, most Americans are familiar with his novel “Huckleberry Finn.” When President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” he supposedly said, “So you are the little woman who…
The Enigmatic Caves of Ajanta
March 20, 2022
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In the remote Indian wilderness, miles from the small town of Ajanta, ancient man-made caves sit nearly 250 feet above a valley stream. It is the type of wondrous destination Westerners would expect to see in an adventurous Indiana Jones movie. Far from fictional however, the mysterious Ajanta Caves are a sacred complex of temple…
Sistine Ceiling’s Prophets and Sibyls Ponder Heaven’s Message
March 20, 2022
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The musty smell of lime plaster fills the air just under the chapel’s ceiling. The artist works quickly on each section of the fresco as he stands on a scaffold platform 68 feet above the floor. Along the perimeter of the high barrel vault of the Sistine Chapel, Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti paints 12 prophetic…
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