- Anonymous 4
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Antonín Dvorák
- Georg Friederich Händel
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Modest Mussorsky
- Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninov
- Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
- Bedrich Smetana
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Richard Wagner
Literature
- Douglas Adams
- Apuleius
- Aristophanes
- Augustine of Hippo
- Bonaventure
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Charles Dickens
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Dostoevsky (P.S.U.)
- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
- Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Euripides
- Robert Heinlein
- Frank Herbert
- Homer
- Victor Hugo
- Clive Staples Lewis
- Lewis: Into the Wardrobe
- Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
- Luminarium
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
- Plato and His Dialogues
- Marcel Proust
- Jean Racine
- William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Online
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- Sophocles
- Terence
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: The Encyclopedia of Arda
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: The Tolkien Society
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
- William Wordsworth
Organizations
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- Cincinnati Arts Association
- City Journal
- The Clarion Review
- The Cloisters
- Dayton Art Institute
- Dumbarton Oaks
- First Things
- Hermitage
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Russell Kirk Center
- Library of Congress
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Louvre
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Opera
- Musée de Cluny
- Musée d'Orsay
- Musée Rodin
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- Museo Nazionale Romano
- Music Hall
- National Gallery of Art
- National Review Online
- New Criterion
- Perseus Project
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Playhouse in the Park
- Strathmore
- The Tolkien Society
- Touchstone Magazine
- Musei Vaticani
- Walters Art Museum
Popular Music
- The Beatles
- Belle & Sebastian
- The Chieftains
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
- The Eagles
- The Guess Who
- Journey
- Led Zeppelin
- Pink Floyd
- R.E.M.
- Simon and Garfunkel
- The Supremes
- They Might Be Giants
- U2
- The Velvet Underground
- The Who
Visual Arts
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Émile Antoine Bourdelle
- Paul Cézanne
- John Constable
- Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi)
- Vincent van Gogh
- Winslow Homer
- Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- Pheidias
- Praxiteles
- Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
- Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Norman Rockwell
- Auguste Rodin
- Andrei Rublev
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
AtomMusic
In Greek mythology, the muses were the daughters of Zeus the king of the gods and Mnemosyne the goddess of memory. The muses inspired men to create what we commonly call the fine arts. In this digital realm, you will find music of both high and low culture, from literature to the visual arts to what we narrowly call music in English. Enjoy and be grateful for being human; for the muses have richly blessed our race.Iconography
Windows into eternity
Tuesday, November 4, A.D. 2008
Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos
On this election day, I would rather be abroad. At least I can write about something other than politics.
Iconography is theology in color, as they say. It seems that iconography plays a more significant role in the Orthodox Christian life than religious art in the West, though perhaps medieval church architecture provided such a role for Western Christians centuries ago. If you ever go to an Orthodox parish, you might experience stimuli overload with all of the iconography; the story of God’s economy is illustrated on every wall, from creation to the martyrs of the Soviet monster. I cannot explain here the richness of the iconographic tradition, but there are many electronic materials online, such as the Orthodox Christian Information Center.
My favorite icon is the Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos:
Aaron and I had the wonderful opportunity to venerate the icon in Moscow. The Soviets confiscated it but, in their shame, did not destroy it. The Tretyakov Gallery is the current custodian of the icon, but the Russian Church demanded it back. The museum struck a compromise with the Church; there is a church next to the museum, Saint Nicholas in Tolmachi, and the museum owns the church, in which the icon is kept. Therefore, the faithful can venerate the icon during liturgical worship, while the museum’s visitors can see one of the most remarkable icons ever written.
on Tuesday, November 4, Anno Domini 2008
