Fuga Mundi

catholic monastic aesthetics

[guido-reni]

Virgin and Child adoring, 1642, Guido Reni

Medium: oil,canvas

[coriesu]

Altar of the Seven Sorrows. Church of Saint Nicholas, Kalkar in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

[theraccolta]

The Vision of Saint Benedict - Fra Juan Andrés Rizi, Prado Museum, Madrid

[theraccolta]

In the Monastic tradition, two periods of silence are observed. The Minor Silence, in which talking is restricted but not forbidden, recalls the afternoon hours of Agony of Christ of the Cross. The Grand Silence, which is observed from Compline until Prime the following day, recalls the three days Christ was in the tomb.

[theraccolta]

The Soul of S. Benedict 

[theraccolta]

Statue of St. Joseph with the Christ Child at Corpus Christi Church in Brixton, London.

[coriesu]

An illustration of Pope Urban IV and Saint Bonaventure listening to Saint Thomas Aquinas presenting the Mass of Corpus Christi in 1264 Unknown artist

[coriesu]

The seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit Unknown Artist

[theraccolta]

Menghini Niccolò , Santa Martina

[rossodimarte]

St. Anthony temptations. The Hours of Henry VIII , Morgan Library by renzodionigi on Flickr.

St. Anthony temptations. The Hours of Henry VIII , Morgan Library

[koredzas]

Filippo Lippi - Madonna of the Belt. Detail. 1456 - 1460

[koredzas]

Filippo Lippi - Madonna of the Belt. Detail. 1456 - 1460

[fuga-mundi]

[therurrjurr]

L’Adoration du Saint nom de Jésus, attributed to Jean Senelle circa 1640,

Église Notre-Dame de Vétheuil.

[koredzas]

Pietro di Miniato - Polyptych with Coronation of the Virgin, Saints, Adoration, and other Stories. 1412 - 1413

[speciesbarocus]

Giovanni di Lorenzo - The stigmatization of Catherine of Siena (1545).

[vinegartoteeth]

Saint Jerome in Penitence

- Bernardino Luini