Byzantine icons

The Byzantine icons seems the most holy and sacred. This is from St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai.

Divna Ljubojevik

I just discovered this wonderful singer on YouTube. She sings Byzantine Orthodox sacred songs. Usually those hymns are sung by rumbling voiced monks. Her voice is angelic.

Giovanni Bellini

Pieta, 1505. Bellini was a Venetian painter, like Carpaccio, I see the same stillness and airlessness in their paintings. This isn't a criticism, it's just how they strike me. Bellini's famous pupils were Giorgione and Titian.

That's Church

I don't know if you've ever been to a black church. It's pretty exciting and emotional. I used to go to one all the time, when I lived near Richmond, CA. If you go to about the middle of the video, people are shouting and getting the holy ghost.

Photo by Peter Helms Feresten, Altar Call, Truth Tabernacle, Fort Worth, TX, 1978.

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/ferestenaltarcall.htm

Chabad Telethon

Chabad Telethon, originally uploaded by vidalia_11.

It's that time of year again!

Happy Easter

This is a detail of Raphael's Transfiguration altarpiece, which was his last painting. Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter.

Easter is coming

a bigger one, originally uploaded by vutni.

Beautiful pysanky photo by vutni.

Passover is coming

Lotsa Matzos!, originally uploaded by pepperedjane.

Not my favorite time of year but what can you do.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Inside the Sistine Chapel..., originally uploaded by unicornia1.

Michelangelo was so passionate and emotional. I love the mannerist style. The reaching of the two hands toward each other is a pinnacle of humanist iconograhy. This gorgeous photo was blogged from flickr.

Gorgeous church in Rome

Theater - II, originally uploaded by rocdam.

Happy New Year

Jerusalem of Gold
Originally uploaded by lapidim.

Shana Tova everyone!

Jan van Eyck

Absolutely gorgeous -- Madonna and Child at the Fountain (1439). See large version on Humanities Web in my links list.

Jan van Eyck small triptych (ca. 1437)

This is amazingly jewel-like in its detail. If you want to see a large version, please go to Humanities Web in my links list.