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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 5h

Wow! Where is this?

Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 1d

It was my first experience inside one, and it did not feel oppressive at all. Quite the contrary, to my surprise. By the way, I love the piece you wrote on bone chapels last year for the Christian Century. I've just included it in my latest blog post!

Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 1d

Musicians Matthew Clark & Ordinary Time are performing in MD! Also: new books by Grace Hamman (on medieval virtues) & Ben Palpant (interviews w/ 17 poets); @lantadavis.bsky.social on a bone-decorated crypt in Rome; & a song by Mark Shiiba inspired by said crypt. artandtheology.org/2025/10/28/r...

Roundup: “Ask of Old Paths,” “An Axe for the Frozen Sea,” Crypt of the Three Skeletons, and more

Upcoming Maryland concerts: Matthew Clark and Ordinary Time | Review of “Ask of Old Paths” by Grace Hamman | Ben Palpant interviews 17 poets | Lanta Davis on bone chapels and their stra…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 8d

The 17th-century Golden Chamber inside the Basilica of St. Ursula in Cologne is decorated with thousands of human bones—allegedly those of St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgin companions, whose feast is today. There are other sights worth seeing at this church too. artandtheology.org/2025/10/21/b...

Bone chapel, anti-Nazi martyrs’ memorial, and contemporary stained glass at the Basilica of St. Ursula, Cologne

The walls of the 17th-century Golden Chamber are decorated with thousands of human bones—allegedly those of St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgin companions. It’s quite a sight. And there…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 12d

This year KMSKA gave its Old Masters galleries a contemporary injection, bringing in works from the past half-century, loaned from private collections, to dialogue with medieval/Renaissance & Baroque masterpieces on themes such as motherhood, suffering & heaven. artandtheology.org/2025/10/16/k...

Kolumba and KMSKA: Medieval and contemporary art in conversation (part 2)

This year KMSKA hosted the exhibition Collected with Vision: Private Collections in Dialogue with the Old Masters, bringing contemporary artworks into conversation with late medieval/early Renaissa…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 14d

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne. They started by collecting medieval German art but then shifted to contemporary. They display works from both eras side-by-side, creating intriguing dialogues. Here are 3 room highlights from my recent visit. artandtheology.org/2025/10/15/k...

Kolumba and KMSKA: Medieval and contemporary art in conversation (part 1)

In this first of a two-part article, I share some highlights from the Kolumba museum in Cologne, which displays medieval and contemporary artworks side-by-side.

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 23d

In this poem from his new collection THE LOCUST YEARS, @pauljpastor.bsky.social reflects on the dissonance between our earthbound reality—marked by misrule, violence, and famine—and the new-earthly reality that awaits us. artandtheology.org/2025/10/06/t...

“The Dream” by Paul J. Pastor (poem)

I woke, and all the kingless world was bleak. I slept, and earth was governed by the meek.

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · 27d

This (mostly) poetry-themed roundup—there's also my new Spotify playlist—features poems by Kobayashi Issa, Lucille Clifton, Hester Pulter, Rafael Campo, Paul J. Pastor, Michael Stalcup, Richard Crashaw, Franz Wright & more, most of them accompanied by commentary. artandtheology.org/2025/10/02/r...

Roundup: “Poetry for All” podcast, startling Crashaw poem, despair and grace, and more

October 2025 Playlist | Podcast recommendation: POETRY FOR ALL | Four poems by Paul J. Pastor | “Undone” by Michael Stalcup | Kimberly Johnson on an epigram by Richard Crashaw | Bonnie …

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Sep 29

This fifteenth-century tapestry from Tournai, then a leading center of production, depicts Christ Carrying the Cross, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. artandtheology.org/2025/09/28/f...

Flemish Tapestry with Scenes of the Passion

At the Art and History Museum in Brussels I encountered a riveting fifteenth-century tapestry from Tournai.

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Roundup: “Heaven and Earth” performance for Psalms-based exhibition, pay-what-you-can film seminar, Doris Salcedo’s “A Flor de Piel,” and more

“Sing a New Song” exhibition at the Morgan, with new performance work by Bingyi | 7-week film seminar with Gareth Higgins | Call for papers addressing (1) visual art and notions of refu…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Sep 15

A 17th-century chronicle tells the story of the form of Christ crucified appearing in a tree to a Mapuche man in Limache. artandtheology.org/2025/09/15/c...

Cristo de la Encina (Christ of the Oak): A miraculous appearance in colonial Chile

A 17th-century chronicle tells the story of the form of Christ crucified appearing in a tree to a Mapuche man in Limache

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Sep 8

This poem is about God's creating & commissioning us to image God. God's benediction here calls us to investigate the root of our desires, to flourish, to remain tender & attentive, perseverant, & to walk hand in hand w/ the Divine in "the country they call life." artandtheology.org/2025/09/08/g...

“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” (Book of Hours I, 59) by Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Sep 1

New playlist, feat. an Indonesian music collective, etc.; Apostles' Creed video; book illustrates Bible stories w/ art by Indigenous Australians; Oscar-nominated short starring DeafBlind actor Robert Tarango; reflection on closing scene of PLACES IN THE HEART. artandtheology.org/2025/09/01/r...

Roundup: Pitjantjatjara picture Bible, “Feeling Through” short film, the reconciling Eucharist, and more

September 2025 Playlist | Apostles’ Creed video | “Godaku Tjukurpa (God’s Story)” from Bible Society Australia | “Feeling Through” short starring DeafBlind actor Rober…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Aug 29

A detached ivory panel at the Met shows our primordial parents blacksmithing together! I was stopped in my tracks by this unique variation on the iconography of Adam and Eve at Labor and was curious to find if there are any other images like it. #laborday #marriage artandtheology.org/2025/08/29/a...

Adam and Eve at the Forge: Partners in Labor in Byzantine Ivories

A group of three rosette caskets, plus a detached panel, from Constantinople show the first couple blacksmithing together

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The Visual Commentary on Scripture @thevcs.bsky.social · Aug 23

Our Exhibition of the Week is called 'The Woman with Nard' and looks at Mary Magdalene in Matthew 26:6–13, Mark 14:3–9, and John 12:1–8.

It features a thirteenth-century French manuscript, a painting by El Greco, and an illumination by Jean Fouquet:

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Matthew 26:6–13; Mark 14:3–9; John 12:1–8
The Woman with Nard
Commentaries by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Aug 19

Morning prayer by Maren Tirabassi; “Sólo le pido a Dios” (I Only Ask of God) sung in Spanish, Hebrew & Arabic; new docuseries showcases rock-hewn churches of Lalibela & Tigray; Mary Margaret Alvarado on Sacred Harp singing; new album ‪@thegesualdosix.bsky.social‬. artandtheology.org/2025/08/19/r...

Roundup: Trilingual antiwar song, rock-hewn churches of Ethiopia, “Sacred Harp Singing in the Age of AI,” and more

“God, I Wake” by Rev. Maren Tirabassi | “Sólo le pido a Dios” by the Alma Sufí Ensamble | New docuseries by the Met, feat. the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and Tigray | Mary Margaret Alvarado on …

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Manar al-Athar archive hosts tons of photos of archaeological sites, buildings & art from the Middle East & surrounding regions. I sample some mosaics, paintings & sculptures from an early Christian tomb, Cappadocian cave churches, Byzantine monasteries & more. artandtheology.org/2025/08/13/i...

Open-Access Image Archive of Middle Eastern Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Based at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, the Manar al-Athar (“Guide to Archaeology”) digital archive provides high-resolution photographs of archaeological sites, buildings, an…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Aug 3

Prospective film series dramatizes episodes from John's Gospel & documents creative process. Also in roundup: monthly playlist; launching & managing a church art gallery; image licensing from Laura James; Cheryl Exum on the rape of Hagar; "He Who Sees Hagar" poem. artandtheology.org/2025/08/03/r...

Roundup: Free e-book on church art galleries, Hagar in art, Dramatic Encounters film series, and more

August 2025 Playlist | “Seeing the Unseen: Launching and Managing a Church Art Gallery” by Sandra Bowden and Marianne Lettieri | Image licensing from Laura James | “Toward a Genuine Dia…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 30

Alison Leonard imagines Miriam singing her brother Moses a lullaby as she says goodbye & entrusts him to the care of another. Across the centuries she hears the wails of Hebrew women who have, as did many that year in ancient Egypt, lost their children to genocide. artandtheology.org/2025/07/30/m...

“Miriam” by Alison Leonard (poem)

Hush my mother’s infant lusty hush my fear-born brother nigh rock you still in paper’s cradle cry you not, or you will die

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 27

Online lit course w/ Karen Swallow Prior; Versed~ community founded by poetry educator Adam Walker; podcasts on how to read a poem, & Flannery O'Connor; showtune-hymn mash-up by Nnenna Freelon; 10 of "the most interesting depictions of Christian faith" in film. artandtheology.org/2025/07/26/r...

Roundup: New online community for poetry lovers and learners; Christians in the movies; etc.

Online literature course with Karen Swallow Prior | Versed~, founded by Adam Walker | Podcast episodes on “How to Read a Poem” with Ben Myers and “The Artistic Vision of Flannery …

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · Jul 22

Today's the feast of St Mary Magdalene, recorded in all canonical gospels and elsewhere as a follower of Christ, and by tradition as the 'Apostle to the Apostles'. In Swiss glass of c1350 in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, she holds a pot of ointment, her conventional symbol.

Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 22

In this roundup: Ketut Lasia, the last of the traditional Ubud painters; "Christian Art in Indonesia" essay; OMSC@PTS artist in residence program; "Global Images of Christ" exhibition catalog; “Oqo Na Noqu Masu” hymn, sung in the sanctuary and on the rugby field. artandtheology.org/2025/07/22/r...

Roundup: Traditional Balinese painting, Fijian hymn, and more

Ketut Lasia and the dying art of Ubud traditional painting | 20th-century Christian art in Indonesia | OMSC artist in residence program | “Global Images of Christ” exhibition catalog | …

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 16

Poet Anne Sexton describes the wakening of a new God-sent day, darkness giving way to light. artandtheology.org/2025/07/16/t...

“The Fury of Sunrises” by Anne Sexton (poem)

Darkness as black as your eyelid, poketricks of stars, the yellow mouth, the smell of a stranger, dawn coming up . . .

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 13

Don't miss Wednesday's Zoom convo w/ Dan Zanes on social music in chaotic times. Also: digital image downloads of sacred art; "Creating a Story-Formed Home"; origins & meaning of Green Man figure from medieval churches; "Love & Mercy" biopic; Sly Stone sings gospel artandtheology.org/2025/07/12/r...

Roundup: Social music with Dan Zanes, the Green Man, and more

Lancaster Digital Collections | Social music with Dan Zanes | Children’s literature retreat with Sarah Clarkson | Imogen Corrigan on medieval Green Man carvings | “Love and Mercy”…

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Victoria Emily Jones @artandtheology.bsky.social · Jul 5

Karis Worship is seeking visual artists, musicians, writers, etc. to create resources for Lent. Proposal deadline: July 11. $5,000 compensation for those selected. www.karisworship.com/call-for-art...

Call for Artists

Karis Worship is commissioning original artwork to inspire worshipers in their Lenten journeys and serve as a centerpiece for our Lenten worship resource guide. This piece will be featured throughout ...

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