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Carolyn Whitson
Sep 17, 20246 min read
A New Medium for the Mystery: The Chester Mystery Play Quilt
I've shown you Last Judgment art in painting, sculpture (in stone and wood), architecture, and more, but here's something extra cool...
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Carolyn Whitson
Dec 28, 20239 min read
Angels We Have Seen On High
I thought I'd finish out our year with something light-hearted and ravishingly beautiful. The West Window of Worcester Cathedral was...
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Carolyn Whitson
Dec 10, 20238 min read
Art Nouveau Heaven--the Watts Cemetery Chapel Interior
Entry view, facing altar Stepping inside the Watts Cemetery Chapel is an altogether different experience from walking about its exterior....
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Carolyn Whitson
Nov 27, 202310 min read
Everything Old is New Again: The Watts Memorial Chapel
One of the bittersweet realities for lovers of Romanesque art is that the majority of it exists in a state of decay and dislocation. ...
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Carolyn Whitson
Oct 16, 20236 min read
The Anti-David: St. Bartholomew by Marco D'Adrate, 1562
A statue has been haunting me. I saw it inside the Duomo of Milan. In retrospect, I think it's the only thing I really saw in the Duomo,...
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Carolyn Whitson
Apr 7, 20229 min read
The Gods of Industry
The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company headquarters was designed by and constructed for people with big ambitions. They saw...
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Carolyn Whitson
Sep 22, 20217 min read
"The Past is Never Dead": The George Floyd Memorial
Like many white residents of the Twin Cities, for over a year I had avoided the site where George Floyd was murdered by police. On the...
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Carolyn Whitson
Mar 19, 20217 min read
Why photographing sculpture rocks
You could reasonably ask, "If you like photographing sculptures of people so much, why not be a portraiture photographer? Aren't living...
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Carolyn Whitson
Feb 22, 20215 min read
Christianizing Festivals: The Barabbata of Marta
The ancient town, on Lake Bolsena, north of Rome, has Etruscan origins. The festival has roots as a fertility rite, where the town gave...
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