Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Art Museum!

This Friday, October 14, our class will be going to the Philadelphia Art Museum. I mentioned that we will be seeing this painting there, among many others. Who is the Dutch artist who painted it? Five bonus points if you can find out!

This is a beautiful painting of the crucifixion of Jesus. Down below, overwhelmed with sorrow, Jesus' mother Mary collapses into the arms of St. John the Apostle. Beneath the cross is a skull and bones. Do you remember the ancient tradition about these bones? What was said to have taken place here?