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CORNELIUS EDMUND SULLIVAN

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SCULPTURE

Virgin Mary, detail, of heads of a Pieta group, Carrara Marble, life size. 2006.

Direct Carving, hammer and Point Chisel, La Subbia. 

Pieta, Vermont Marble, Carved in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Chapter One.

https://www.academia.edu/120889298/MICHELANGELOS_CARVING_METHOD

PAINTINGS

Loaves And Fishes, oil on canvas, 4×8′

DRAWINGS

Winona Reading, in the wicker chair, ink.

Saint Cecilia, Trastevere, Rome. Her Basilica.

My drawing of the marble of Saint Cecilia under the Altar at her Basilica in Trastevere, Rome.                                                                                                                                                 From Caravaggio : A Life by Helen Langdon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

ETCHINGS

This etching of Gloucester Poet Charles Olsen was used as a mailer

for the Cape Ann Museum.

It was donated by Mayor French.

 

VIDEOS

INTRODUCTION TO CARVING MARBLE, video by Brendan Weston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1X0ABg2dU&t=5s

CARVING A MARBLE FACE   151,444
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VwpuuaJS4g&t=121
s

Marble Carving Point Chisel with Mocking Bird

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bfrYZmxthug169yf68AcI

CARVING A MADONNA AND CHILD,  PIETRASANTA, ITALY,  part1 20,152 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9FMsbaSE-A&t=35s

CARVING A MADONNA AND CHILD, CONYERS, GA. part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE-W

ABOUT

Sacred Art and Modernism, Form Separated from Content

Angel of the Mountain, Carrara marble, 2011, Private Collection Kennebunkport, ME

WRITING.    https://avemaria.academia.edu/CorneliusSullivan

SACRED ART

BIOGRAPHY

corneliussullivan.com
Cornelius Edmund Sullivan MFA has taught Drawing at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and at The University of Miami, The University of Miami School of Architecture, the Danforth Museum, and Art History at Florida International University for the DASH school in Miami. He was chosen with a small number of students from Marian High School in Framingham Massachusetts to take a special Physics class designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology  to catch up with Russia after they launched the satellite Sputnik. Then he studied Physics at Boston College and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 1991 and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Miami in 1996.

For many years he was an Artist in Residence for the City of Cambridge, MA School Department. At the same time he served as the elected Artist’s Representative to The Board of Directors of The Boston Center for the Arts and was a Master Etching Printer at Impressions Workshop Atelier in Boston. He has been a lecturer and consultant in Rome beginning in 2007  for ContextRome.com  leading the “Caravaggio Seminar”, and tours of “Arte Vaticana”, and “Galleria Borghese”.

Mr. Sullivan was invited in September to attend a Conference for Foreign Journalists at the Vatican hosted by Sant Croce Pontifical University and was issued a Journalist’s Vatican Press Pass for the Conclave of 2013.

Sullivan is an Adjunct Professor Co-Teaching a class with Dr. Waldstein on Theology and Art at Ave Maria University in Florida. He has been a Visiting  Lecturer on Sacred Art at Ave Maria University, for example with: Sacred Art II, Sacred Art and Modernism  at an Honors Colloquium, Perspectives on Modern Art, March 19, 2014.
Sullivan delivered a lecture at Ave Maria University October 6, 2014, in response to the lecture “The Human Figure in Art” by Distinguished Visiting Professor Philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. The other respondent was  Michael Waldstein, Ph.D.Max Seckler Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University. Sullivan responded to Scruton’s lecture and to his well known one hour BBC video “Why Beauty Matters”.
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