CST 531 Topics in Art: The Catholic Image—Visual Art and Artists
This course follows the development of Visual Art images from ancient to contemporary culture by studying artists who have used, as St. Pope John Paul described, “creative intuition to enter into the heart of the mystery of the incarnate God and at the same time into the mystery of man.” The course will view and consider the established modes of visual expression and narrative image-making in the Western Tradition of Art, from the Classical age to the Modern age. Critical analysis will focus on the aesthetic dialogues between the literal and the visual, the symbolic and the incarnate, the profane and the sacred.