Do buildings push your buttons? How does it feel to walk down a city street…
Katie KresserMay 19, 2022
I’ve been teaching college students for almost 16 years. Make that 20 years, if you…
Katie KresserFebruary 14, 2022
As we celebrate the New Year, we commemorate the passage of the old. In the…
Katie KresserJanuary 18, 2022
Fra Angelico, The Nativity, Basilica di San Marco, Florence, 1441, https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/nativity-1441 It is very difficult, today, for…
Katie KresserDecember 17, 2021
Icon of the Visitation https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-visitation-icon-samuel-epperly.html Pantokrator icon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Pantocrator_(Sinai)#/media/File:Spas_vsederzhitel_sinay.jpg Among all the manifestations of Christ’s church, the…
Katie KresserDecember 10, 2021
Simone Martini, The Annunciation with Sts. Margaret and Ansanus, early 14th c., Uffizi Gallery, https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/annunciation-with-st-margaret-and-st-ansanus Also, Henry Ossawa Tanner, The…
Katie KresserDecember 3, 2021
(Choirs of Angels, Scivias I.6, https://arthistoryproject.com/artists/hildegard-von-bingen/scivias-i.6-the-choirs-of-angels/) Among medieval Catholic saints (think Catherine of Siena, Anthony…
Katie KresserNovember 26, 2021
In 1863, five years before his death at age 86, the French painter J-A-D Ingres…
Katie KresserOctober 11, 2021
Among the modern artists my students resonate with most are the German Expressionists who worked…
Katie KresserSeptember 7, 2021
Whatever rises must fall. Birds return to the forests of their birth, and salmon to…
Katie KresserAugust 10, 2021
Editor's Note: Due to an early morning link problem with the e-mail sent Thursday, we…
Katie KresserJuly 22, 2021
Professional art historians are among the luckiest of God’s children. Our vocations consist in the…
Katie KresserJuly 1, 2021
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (usually just called Caravaggio) was always hiding. He left his family…
Katie KresserApril 29, 2021
On this day, we remember the unjust murder of an innocent man. And he wasn’t…
Katie KresserApril 2, 2021
We know ourselves by what is reflected back at us. We see ourselves in the…
Katie KresserMarch 26, 2021
In 1505, the Renaissance artist Raphael Sanzio lavished his skill on a subject rather out-of-date:…
Katie KresserMarch 15, 2021
It’s Ash Wednesday, a time of repentance, and I’m put in mind of an artist…
Katie KresserFebruary 17, 2021
Contemporary culture is obsessed with the human body. It (that is, the body) carries so…
Katie KresserFebruary 10, 2021
In gray Seattle, it’s easy to feel a sense of mystery as you walk the…
Katie KresserDecember 21, 2020
