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Beloved Upon the Earth

The Latin words Ecce Homo mean, simply: behold the man. The words are taken from John 19:5, as Pilate offers the crowd the scourged Jesus. And the words have served as the prompt for many paintings. Rembrandt, Bosch, and — pictured above —...

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Like a Poem, or a Cup of Water

Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2023)

The Korean artist Kimsooja often plays with light to create experiences that are by turns surprising, contemplative, and immersive. I have been sitting with this particular p...

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The God Who Bleeds

The Isenheim Altarpiece, painted by Matthias Grünewald, uses historical conflation by setting John the Baptist on the right — having prophesied Jesus’ death well before it occurred (John 1:29) — alongside the chronologically accurate grievi...

5 months ago
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My Own Lazarus: A Poem and its Story

Roger Wagner, “Abraham and the Angels” (2025)

Roger Wagner gives us his vision of the biblical story of Abraham’s visitation cast in a 21st world, complete with ecological threat looming in the background. In the foreground is Abraham with...

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Christ at the Carnival, The Great River of the Church, and Flying Monks in a Left-Brained World

“Christ’s Entry into Brussels,” James Ensor (1889)

In James Ensor’s late–19th century painting Christ’s Entry into Brussels, we are dropped into a Carnival procession—loud, crowded, and almost suffocating with color. The word itself means,...

8 months ago
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