Dr. Joseph Becherer, Executive Director of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, reflects on Giovanni Martinelli’s Memento Mori: Death Comes to the Table for Ash Wednesday.
Cozette Brown
Fr. Austin Collins, CSC, Vice President for Mission Engagement and Church Affairs and Professor of Art, reflects on Saint Paul the Hermit by Jusepe de Ribera.
Katy Stalter, second year Master of Divinity student, reflects on Saint Carlo Borromeo and the Plague Stricken by Giacinto Brandi.
John Cahill, Congregation of Holy Cross Seminarian, reflects on Christ Blessing by Alessandro Oliverio.
Kelton Castillo, Art Undergrauate Major, reflects on Forging of the Cross by Henry Mosler.
Mary Kate Kocovski, Economics and Theology Major, reflects on themes of hope and liberation in the Finding of Moses by Charles de la Fosse.
Margaret Schlueter, Master of Divinity student, reflects on the life of Christ and the genesis of the church seen through a Chalice sculpted by Charles-Eugene Triollier.
Lucy Schultz, Masters of Fine Arts Industrial Design major, reflects on the Rejection of Cain’s Offering and the Sacrifice of Manoah by Gaetano Gandolfi.
Hilary Ott, Academy Advancement Director for Arts & Architecture, reflects on Lot with his Wife and Daughters Cast Out of Sodom by William Hamilton.
Emily Normand, the Lilly Endowment Museum Fellow for Religion and Spirituality in the Visual Arts at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, reflects on the Annunciation, attributed to Peruvian artists.
Kolton Koubsky, senior Theology and Marketing major, reflects on the scrutiny brought to the faith (and art) post-Enlightenment from the perspective of the Adoration of the Magi by Jacopo Amigoni.
Anders Ove, Art Handler at the Raclin Museum of Art, reflects on the Holy Trinity from the perspective of the Byzantine Tradition.
Emmanuel Ufio, Master of Science in Finance candidate, reflects on how we might encounter the intimate gaze of Christ through Madonna and Child by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli.
As we draw ever closer to Holy Week, Catalina Scheider Galiñanes, junior Economics and Political Science major, reflects on Christ Carrying His Cross by Gian Francesco de Maineri.
Joshua Johnson, first-year Civil Engineering Major, reflects on what appears like foolishness to the world through the Martydom of Saint Andrew by Francesco Trevisani.
Meredith Glunz, first-year Theology Major, reflects on the Christ-like courage of a young woman through the perspective of Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Fremiet.
Gina Costa, Raclin Murphy Communications Program Director, reflects on the sinfulness of Herod through Massacre of the Innocents attributed to Valerio Marucelli.
On this Palm Sunday, Bridget Hoyt, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Curator of Education Academic Programs, reflects on The Mystical Winepress attributed to Peruvian artists.
Jennifer Boggess, Raclin Murphy Museum Visitor Services Lead, reflects on grief and faith through the perspective of Christ with Mary and Martha by Rocco Marconi.
Fr. Peter Rocca C.S.C., Rector Emeritus of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and ROTC Chaplain, reflects on the power of confession through Absolution Under Fire by Paul Henry Wood.
Kelly Courington, Academic Advancement Director for the College of Engineering and a Theology Master’s student, reflects on Albrecht Durer’s intaglio print Betrayal of Christ by Judas.
Art major undergraduate student Mae Harkins reflects on the universality of prayer through the perspective of Ash Banquet by Zhang Huan.