This ivory diptych pairs Adam’s primordial harmony with Saint Paul’s miraculous acts, presenting a visual argument of restored balance, where faith overcomes disorder, reflecting theological meaning and late Roman cultural tensions.
Still Life with Hawthorn Blossom
In the quiet refinement of 19th-century Danish painting, Jensen’s Still Life with Hawthorn Blossom celebrates May’s fleeting beauty — where delicate hawthorn blossoms become symbols of renewal, transience, and enduring meaning.
May 2026 Newsletter
A celebration of May through art—flowers, portraits, mythology, and sacred stories—inviting you to explore renewal, beauty, and meaning across cultures and centuries.
A Mountain Climber Resting
Winslow Homer’s A Mountain Climber Resting captures a quiet summit pause, reflecting rising leisure travel, shifting views of nature, and the enduring ideal of solitary exploration in nineteenth-century America.
Master Glassmaker Ennion
Mold-blown glass cup from the workshop of Ennion, showcasing early Roman innovation, elegant decoration, and a Greek inscription, now preserved at the Getty Villa.
Fujiwara Yasumasa Plays the Flute by Moonlight
Moonlit Kyoto tale of Fujiwara Yasumasa: flute music disarms a bandit in this Konjaku Monogatari story, later immortalized in Yoshitoshi’s Meiji woodblock print of quiet power and transformation.
Sunset at Constantinople by Constantinos Maleas
Maleas captures Constantinople at sunset as a luminous, dreamlike city where color, light, and atmosphere dissolve form, transforming architecture and landscape into a poetic meditation on beauty, memory, and cultural convergence.
Fra Angelico’s story of the Passion
He would never take up his brushes without prayer; and in his Crucifixions, the devotion he felt is seen in the tender, pious expression of every figure.
Codex Purpureus Rossanensis
A sixth-century masterpiece, the Rossano Gospels transforms the Parable of the Ten Virgins into a radiant meditation on vigilance, light, and spiritual readiness for Easter contemplation.
Pink Sweet Peas II
A luminous close-up by Georgia O’Keeffe transforms sweet peas into an immersive meditation on form, perception, and the quiet power of spring’s fleeting beauty.