Category: Art

  • Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida

    Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida

    By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Pablo Picasso died fifty years ago last year but Holy Saturday eclipsed his anniversary. On April 8, 2023 Catholics were preparing for the Resurrection. They were still celebrating the rising of Christ later that month when another anniversary occurred: the bombing of Guernica in northern Spain, on April 26,…

  • Noli Me Tangere

    Noli Me Tangere

    This painting by Titian is at the National Gallery in London. On Easter morning the Risen Christ appears to St. Mary Magdalene in the garden and tells her: Do not touch me – in Latin Noli me tangere.

  • The Veil of Saint Veronica

    The Veil of Saint Veronica

    Reflection on the vivid depiction of Christ’s Holy Face by engraver Claude Mellan (1649)