Mgr Timothy Verdon, Author at Catholic Herald

Mgr Timothy Verdon

The drama of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks

May 02, 2019

Unlike other Florentine Renaissance artists such as Fra Angelico and Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci was not personally religious for most of his life. Yet his interest in human nature allowed him to interpret Christian subjects in a way that still moves those of us who believe that in Jesus, God became man. An example of

Catholic art in an age of conflict

October 25, 2018

Catholic art, at least in the first quarter of a century after Luther’s publication of his theses, remained apparently insensible of any need to respond, as if convinced that the German trouble was a passing episode. Only in the late 1530s and 1540s did the Roman Church implicitly recognise the Reform then long underway and

Why the Resurrection rarely features in Christian art

April 01, 2018

Even geniuses struggle to capture an event so wondrous

Arts essay: Why artists shy away from the Resurrection

March 29, 2018

The central event of Christian faith is the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, celebrated with great solemnity every year since the beginning of Christian history in the liturgical feast of Easter. Yet the Resurrection is less frequently represented in Christian art than other subjects, such as the Madonna and Child or the Crucifixion, and

A theology lesson for Renaissance princes

May 11, 2017

Occasionally artists are also theologians, giving visual form to ideas about God. Such was Raphael, called to fresco Pope Julius II’s apartments in the Vatican in the years that saw Michelangelo at work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Bramante on the new St Peter’s. Raphael’s theological gift is clear in the pope’s private library

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