Katie Kresser

In my role as an Art History professor at Seattle Pacific University, I have accompanied…

Do buildings push your buttons? How does it feel to walk down a city street…

Everything is compromised. Nothing is worthy. Strip it down, strip it down. Take off the…

I’ve been teaching college students for almost 16 years. Make that 20 years, if you…

As we celebrate the New Year, we commemorate the passage of the old. In the…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

In 1863, five years before his death at age 86, the French painter J-A-D Ingres…

Among the modern artists my students resonate with most are the German Expressionists who worked…

Whatever rises must fall. Birds return to the forests of their birth, and salmon to…

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (usually just called Caravaggio) was always hiding. He left his family…

On this day, we remember the unjust murder of an innocent man. And he wasn’t…

We know ourselves by what is reflected back at us. We see ourselves in the…

In 1505, the Renaissance artist Raphael Sanzio lavished his skill on a subject rather out-of-date:…