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The Balancing Act of the Beautiful

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart Gustave Moreau was a 19th-century symbolist painter in France. The symbolists beli...

Hope for the Impossible

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart During the 19th century, at the height of the Enlightenment, neoclassicists and ro...

A Rule in Common: Norman Rockwell’s ‘Golden Rule’

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart Recent events concerning the death of George Floyd have unleashed anger across the...

Finding Our Paradise Lost

As we come close to the middle of 2020, I’m left asking “What else will happen?” It’s been an eventful year so far, to say the least. I’v...

Exposing Vice to the Loving Light of Truth

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart It’s interesting how our vices lose strength when they are brought out into the op...

The Sin of Narcissism: Meeting One’s Own Worst Enemy

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart I am guilty of being narcissistic. I’m an artist, and I want people to see my work...

NTD International Figure Painting Competition Announces 2019 Winners

The theme of the competition, "pure truth, pure kindness, and pure beauty," inspired many of the artists NEW YORK—Sandra Kuck has been a ...

Dante and the CCP Virus: What Do We Learn?

Taking a step from hell to purgatory When we look at the world today, we see a world of trouble, turmoil, and an increasing sense of hyst...

Remembering to Consider Others in Times of Suffering

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart As the world responds to the growing concern about the CCP (Chinese Communist Part...

What the Man Who Built the Eiffel Tower Can Teach Us About Virtue

They once called the proposed 300-meter monument in the heart of Paris an “eyesore”; today, it’s an icon. Gustave Eiffel’s proposal for a...

The Great Flood and What It Tells Us

Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly destroyed humanity at some unknown poin...

Michelangelo’s ‘Dream of Human Life’

A gift between heaven and earth Around 1533, the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo produced a series of drawings that he gave to hi...

Paving the Way to Heaven: Asking Yourself Why

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart In 1600, Caravaggio, an Italian Baroque painter of biblical scenes, was commission...

When All Seems Bleak, Look to 1777

‘Times that try men's souls’ gave way to hope and optimism ’Twas the early evening of Christmas Day in 1776 and Gen. George Washington wa...

In Memoriam: A Eulogy for a Great Man, Roger Scruton

“When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.” That proverb, purportedly from Africa, contains a great deal of truth. Men and w...

‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’: Love and Forgiveness

I recently came across Pompeo Batoni’s “The Return of the Prodigal Son” and was immediately struck by the care and warmth between the two...

Cleansing Our Temples

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart The Italian painter Luca Giordano working in the late 17th century was misundersto...

Job: Suffering and Sincerity

Reaching within: What traditional art offers the heart I recently saw Léon Bonnat’s painting “Job,” which powerfully represents the suffe...

The Invisible World We Ignore at Our Peril

In our increasingly materially focused world, a world in which image is king over content, it is worth bearing in mind that sometimes the...

The Rapturous Union of Heart and Mind

Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart What does it mean to authentically love? The term “love” is often thrown at any ob...

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