194 Visual Literacy with Amanda Shepard

AMDG. This episode is all about the accessibility of art history. Friend of the Kolbecast Therese Prudlo and co-host of the Catholic Art History Podcast Amanda Shepard (also the vice president of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art) visit with Bonnie and Steven about experiencing art and introducing it to children. Topics along the way include the sacramentality of creativity, the conversation modern art engages in with its predecessors, ways to approach sensitive subject matter, and Kolbe’s new art history course offering. 

Links mentioned & relevant: 

Books: 

• Beauty in the Light of the Redemption – Dietrich von Hildebrand 
• On Beauty and Being Just – Elaine Scarry 
• How Catholic Art Saved the Faith – Elizabeth Lev 

Art 

• Lamentation over the Dead Christ (various versions on this theme) 
  https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/lamentation-over-the-dead-christ 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_Lamentation_over_the_Dead_Christ_-_WGA22469.jpg 
• Christ in the House of His Parents 
  https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-christ-in-the-house-of-his-parents-the-carpenters-shop-n03584 
• The Penitence of St. Jerome: 
  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437261 
  https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/M.2009.2.P/ 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Jerome_in_Penitence_%28Titian,_1531%29 

Not mentioned in the podcast: 

All-ages, visually rich painting to ponder any time: 

• The Finding of the Savior in the Temple: 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finding_of_the_Saviour_in_the_Temple 
• A perennial favorite, La Pieta 
  https://michelangelo.ace.fordham.edu/exhibits/show/vatican-pieta/item/26 

Museums: 

• Detroit Museum of Arts 
• Fort Wayne Museum of Art 

Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 

• 20 Head, Heart, and Hands 

• 111 What Treasures Remain 

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