“The Sacred Made Real” Exhibition Review

Exhibition-goers in London are having their abstract notions of God challenged by old Spanish masters at the National Gallery exhibition, “The Sacred made Real”. In their fight to beat back the Lutherian challenge of protestantism, with its rejection of religious imagery, these artists stripped down their work into a direct, vivid form.

[caption id=”attachment_147″ align=”alignleft” width=”252″ caption=”Alonso Cano, The Vision of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, also known as The Miracle of the Lactation, about 1657–60,

Caroline Rossiter is a writer based in Paris, her work has appeared in European Comic Art and she blogs about art in Paris at thegreatexposition.com. ...read more

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