Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination: An Illustrated Journey

Catholics have always expressed their faith through art, whether in painting, sculpture, music, poetry, literature, or-in modern times-film. And yet much of the discussion of Catholic art in universities, museums, and public lectures ignores the essential dimension of religious belief. Michelangelo, for example, is studied as a Florentine, a political discontent, a Renaissance luminary, even as a businessman, but the personal faith that suffuses his work is very often ignored. And yet Miche...