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Inspirations | Art in Focus
August 6, 2006
Nancy Holt, Solar Rotary
By LENNIE BENNETT
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April 16, 2006
The Resurrection Window at Sacred Heart Church, Tampa
By LENNIE BENNETT
Thank you, Sarah A. Moore, whoever you are. No one seems to know exactly when you gave the donation for the Resurrection Window at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Tampa, or much else about you, even when you died. But sometime around 1905, you paid for this gloriousstained glass art as a memorial to your husband, W.M. Moore, who is also a cipher in Sacred Heart’s history. Today, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a good time to express gratitude to people like you who believed that grand beauty in a place of worship can be as sacred as hair shirts and humility.
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January 29, 2006
Illuminated leaf from a missal, vellum, ink, pigment and gold leaf
By LENNIE BENNETT
You always knew where you stood, spiritually, in the Middle Ages. Devotional guides directed the hours of the day, days of the week and months of the year in a cycle of worship that was both repetitive and comforting to a largely illiterate population. Priests and other clergy read from religious texts that fell into two categories: breviaries for the Divine Office, which was a series of daily prayers, and missals that celebrated the Mass.
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November 6, 2005
Ringling Museum of Art
By LENNIE BENNETT
A Family Group Adoring the Veil of Veronica, c. 1490, oil on panel, 311/2 inches by 27 inches.
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October 16, 2005
I Remember Birmingham
By LENNIE BENNETT
We interact with art at some level every time we look at it, usually trying to figure it out rather than feeling it on an emotional level. Sometimes, though, a work is so fully conceived, with a perfect balance between an idea and the materials used to realize the idea, that it evokes a powerful response that is both intellectual and spiritual.
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September 18, 2005
Abraham Rattner, Fete Bretonne, 1923, oil on canvas
By LENNIE BENNETT
Abraham Rattner, Fete Bretonne, 1923, oil on canvas, 36 by 283/4 inches. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Leepa-Rattner Museum in Tarpon Springs.
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August 14, 2005
Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
By LENNIE BENNETT
Squint. Suddenly, the nude woman gazing out a window becomes a portrait of . . . Abraham Lincoln! Salvador Dali loved pranks, and here he plays a trick on our eyes and minds. But why juxtapose a bare backside and a great American president? Read on.
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July 31, 2005
Still Life with Flowers, oil on panel, 42 1/2 by 30 inches
By LENNIE BENNETT
Pretty, isn't it?
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July 17, 2005
Black-figure Neck Amphora, Greek, circa 510 B.C.
By LENNIE BENNETT
Many museum visitors charge past displays of antiquities, thinking they're all the same.
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July 3, 2005
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome
By LENNIE BENNETT
You know the museum drill. Enter a gallery, reconnoiter, move on. Take in as much as possible, sort of like overloading a plate at a buffet.
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