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Janet DeCoux’s St. Benedict with a Raven
Janet DeCoux’s St. Benedict with a Raven
DeCoux’s stylized Benedict is portrayed as a young man with the monastic tonsure, or shaved scalp and elongated, highly structured hands, connoting a life marked by labor. Standing erect, Benedict gestures upwards at a raven clutching bread in its beak.
Saint Benedict and his twin sister, Saint Scholastica
Created by Father Bonaventure Ostendarp, O.S.B, the year he pronounced his vows as a Benedictine monk at Saint Vincent, this pair of paintings depicting Saint Benedict and his twin sister, Saint Scholastica, were installed in Archabbot Douglas's office for decades.
The production and preservation of books
For centuries, the production and preservation of books has been associated with monastic communities. Many monks and nuns, and later lay persons, were trained in the time and labor-intensive process of transcribing books by hand before embracing mechanical printing…
Tree of Life Sculptures
Tree of Life sculptures have been made by the Makonde people as visual representations of Ujamaa — a Swahili word meaning “extended family.” Working principally in present-day Tanzania and Mozambique, Makonde artists carve interlocking figures from a single piece of wood…
Helen Gerardia’s Nocturne of a Rural Church
Helen Gerardia’s nocturne of a rural church represents an edifice inherited from an earlier time rendered with the vigor of the modern age. An angular steeple thrusts skyward, paired against a mountainous terrain in the distance...