In this series, we will examine each month a great work of Catholic art in painting, so as to go "beyond words” in our experience and expression of the Faith.

We say “A picture is worth a thousand words.” When the loftiest, universal truths are joined with the most immediate, individual, and concrete experiences of our sight, the most spiritual of our senses, so that we are enabled to grasp, not in words, but by an attraction and movement of the soul, the whole picture, the whole of a reality as a single possession of the heart, then we have found the most effective manner of experiencing and describing the things that are, high and low, great and small, and everything in-between, joining end to end.

In our tradition we call this experiencing and describing by the names of Wisdom and of Beauty.