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 The articles were published in The Italian Insider Newspaper and Inside the Vatican Magazine based in Rome and The Saint Austin Review in South Bend, Indiana.

 

Kant’s Modernist Aesthetics resulted in the phenomenon of viewers looking at a work of art and wa… more 
 
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My interview with Caravaggio is about whether his homicide in Rome where he killed Ranuccio Toma… more 
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We talk about the Caravaggio painting of The Martyrdom of Saint Peter. He explains the current po… more 
 
 
 
 
 
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I find it remarkable that I could fill my living room from floor to ceiling with books and articl… more 
 
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What are the words that describe the different ideas and even the different human anthropologies?… more 
 
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On April 7, 2021, the discovery of a new Caravaggio was announced. It is a 111 x 86 cm canvas, d… more 
 
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The boy from a town that was transformed by a miraculous apparition of the Madonna became as Amer… more 
 
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The great gift of Caravaggio the master storyteller is his empathy. Like no one else He gives us … more 
 
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In Caravaggio’s painting The Raising of Lazarus, Lazarus has the pose that Christ would have on t… more 
 
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The Beheading of John the Baptist painting can tell us more about the tortured psyche of the grea… more 
 
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ROME –The Eternal City’s museums are replete with Caravaggio exhibitions. There are many tours o… more 
 
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ROME — The Statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the train station in Rome does not represent … more 
 
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Rome- At the time of the plagues of 590 AD and The Black Death of 1348 in Rome prayers were the p… more 
 
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Yes. But it is not just any face. It is a face with contextual meaning. If God revealed himself i… more 
 
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Benedict the “Face of God” meant Jesus of Nazareth. someone who he had come to know intimately, H… more 
 
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Art by Cornelius E Sullivan

When authority in Art went from the Guilds to the Universities from those who make to those who j… more 
 
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Sacred Art and Modernism, Form Separated from Content

Sacred Art and Modernism, Form Separated from Content

Sacred Art and theTheology of the Body THE ITALIAN INSIDER Newspaper, Rome, Sunday January 8. 2017  https://corneliussullivan.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fcorneliussullivan.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

CARAVAGGIO

        Sacred Art and Modernism

Rome’s extravagant celebration of Caravaggio- How can we know another man’s death.             published July 11, 2011 

Caravaggio, Saints and Sinners- Caravaggio painted sinners as saints.                                        August 13, 2011. 

Caravaggio on the Run in Malta                                                                                              March 26, 2012  “Masterpiece”- J. P. 

Caravaggio, the Interview- My art, it is oil paint on canvas, and I put it on with these hands.       August 25, 2012

The Resurrection of Lazarus                                                                                                      

My Interview with Saint Peter, the Art of Martyrdom                                                              November 3, 2012

Attacks on Caravaggio I saw him there in the street, the narrow street, Via del Leone,                June 4, 2012

Caravaggio Reveals Himself- The most unlikely candidate                                                       August 3  

Caravaggio and the Marilyn Elvis Syndrome-  Only the good die young.                                   July 25

 Caravaggio and the Aesthetics of Meaning- Caravaggio is the antidote to Conceptual Art.          September 27,

Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, not just realists-  Caravaggio used light to tell the story.   September 6  

 Caravaggio Speaks to the Modern Age       June 20, 2012

Who is Saint Matthew for Caravaggio         August 7, 2012

 Another Bogus Caravaggio Discovery         July 10,  2012 

Tranquillo Caravaggio, the Town                 June 26, 2012

Caravaggio Borrows from Michelangelo     December 18, 2011

MICHELANGELO

Looking Over Michelangelo’s Shoulder as He Carves Marble    Gloucester Lecture One- The Italian Insider- http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/4680

Michelangelo in Rome                         November 15, 2011 

Michelangelo in Rome II  

Carving Marble by the Michelangelo Quarry in Carrara      Summer 2014

A Lost Michelangelo, don’t get your hopes up                          July 18, 2012

SACRED ART

Sacred Art and the Theology of the Body, Caravaggio,  http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/2843 

Sacred Art and The Theology of the Body, Part One, Caravaggio  related- Exhibition at Ave Maria University, 2015,   

ART CRITICISM

The first article published by The Italian Insider Newspaper- 

Papa Wojtyla as Capeman Sculpture of Pope John Paul II by the Train Sation, Rome       June 30, 2011    “Erudite”-J. P.     

Capeman II: Papal Statue not Improved                        November, 20, 2012 “Well said”.- M.P., “Great Article”-C.S., P.A.

 The Annunciation, Ave Maria

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as Mao                              February 2012

Art Mysteries Solved, a Leonardo, a Michelangelo, and a Raphael       October 11 

Moor Fountain in Piazza Navona vandalized                                             September 6 

My Art of the Blessed Virgin        feature article , Fenestrae Coeli, Saint Austin Review, January/February 2012 

Pope Francis and Caravaggio

Benedict, Monks, Mystics, and Hermits   written March 2, 2013 

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Theologian in Residence                   February 26                                                                            

The Pope out Back and the Conclave                                                                                February 14, 2013

 Does God Have a Face    http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/3201                                   February 13, 2013 “Thoughtful and stimulating as ever”- JP

Lectures: These three lectures are related, variations on the same theme delivered at different times.

Response to Roger Scruton

Sacred Art

Sacred Art and The Theology of the Body

OTHER

American Views of the Amanda Knox Verdict                       November 3

The Roman Forum                                                              June 8, 2012

Too Hot in Rome                                                               ” I really like this.” -N. G., “That’s Him”- T. A. and others

Essays

  

 

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Mural Size Paintings Lost or Stolen

CARAVAGGIO

A newly discovered Caravaggio Painting – https://corneliussullivan.com/41800-2/ ‎

Caravaggio on the Run in Malta

Caravaggio’s Raising of Lazarus

Rome’s extravagant celebration of Caravaggio — How can we know another man’s death.

Caravaggio Speaks to the Modern Age June 20, 2012

Caravaggio and the Marilyn Elvis Syndrome-  Only the good die young.

Caravaggio, The Interview  

Interview with Saint Peter, the Art of Martyrdom 

Attacks on Caravaggio I saw him there in the street, the narrow street, Via del Leone, June 4, 2012

Caravaggio, Saints and Sinners- Caravaggio painted sinners as saints.           

Caravaggio, the most Unlikely Candidate

 Caravaggio and the Aesthetics of Meaning- Caravaggio is the antidote to Conceptual Art.          September 27,

Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, not just realists-  Caravaggio used light to tell the story.   September 6  

Who is Saint Matthew for Caravaggio         August 7, 2012, revised June 2, 2018

 Another Bogus Caravaggio Discovery         July 10,  2012 

Tranquillo Caravaggio, the Town                 June 26, 2012

Sacred Art and the Theology of the Body, Caravaggio,  http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/2843

Sacred Art and The Theology of the Body, Part One, Caravaggio  related- Exhibition at Ave Maria University, 2015,

Caravaggio Borrows from Michelangelo     December 18, 2011

Also published at the Italian Insider Newspaper, Rome http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=taxonomy/term/2&page=5

Ecce Homo New Caravaggio Painting Discovered https://corneliussullivan.com/41800-2/

MICHELANGELO

Looking over Michelangelo’s Shoulder as He Carves Marble

Michelangelo in Rome                         November 15, 2011 

Michelangelo in Rome II  

Carving Marble by the Michelangelo Quarry in Carrara      Summer 2014

A Lost Michelangelo, don’t get your hopes up

Sacred Art

 

July 18, 2012Sacred Art and Modernism

The Annunciation, Ave Maria

My Art of the Blessed Virgin   feature article , Fenestrae Coeli, Saint Austin Review,

Does God Have a Face          http://www .italianinsider.it/?  q=node/3201                        February 13, 2013

Sacred Art and The Theology of the Body

Sacred Art   

March 23, 2016 I wrote this short piece yesterday for John and Ashley in Rome who produce Voice of the Vatican,

ART CRITICISM

Opinion: Papa Wojtyla as Capeman, The Statue of Pope John Paul II in Front of the Train Station in Rome Does Not Represent the Man We Came to Know So Intimately.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as Mao                              February 2012

Art Mysteries Solved, a Leonardo, a Michelangelo, and a Raphael       October 11

 

 

 

 

 

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