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Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or Très Riches Heures is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, “le roi des manuscrits enluminés” (“the king of illuminated manuscripts”). It is a very richly decorated Book of Hours containing over 200 folios, of which about half are full page illustrations.

It was painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers for their patron Jean, Duc de Berry . They left it unfinished at their (and the Duke’s) death in 1416. Charles I, Duke I of Savoy commissioned Jean Colombe to finish the paintings between 1485-1489.

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Karel Dujardin. 1622 -1678. Calvary.

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Teresa of Ávila by François Gérard (1770−1837), a French painter

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And like all those who faint away through excess of pleasure and joy, she remains as it were unconscious in the divine arms and on the divine breast.

She no longer cares for anything except to abandon herself to joy, nourished by the divine milk … This heavenly inebriation by which she is delighted and terrified at the same time … this holy madness.”

- Saint Theresa of Avila, Thoughts on the Love of God

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Thure Cederström (1843-1924) Klosterinteriör med munk

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Ghent Altarpiece in 100 Billion Pixels

From Fr. Z.

Here is something for your Just Too Cool file.

The Getty Foundation collaborated to render the Ghent Altarpiece in 100 billion pixels. Yes, that’s billion with a b.

Go here: http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home

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"Take up your cross and follow Me"

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The Christian Soul Accepting her Cross — Museo del Prado

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GIOTTO, Basilica di S.Francesco, Assisi

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Edouard Bernard Debat-Ponsan - The Daughter Of Jephthah [1876]

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Marx called religion the opiate of the people. But the real opiate of the people – the coca leaves of modern culture that we’re all expected to chew – is the river of consumer comforts and distractions that we use to damp down our deeper hunger for God and our gnawing sense of obligation to so many other people.

Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. in “The New Evangelization: Responsibilities and Challenges for the American Continent” (via stereoma)

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