Compare is one of the best ways to analyze. If we also analyze our time, it is legitimate for the compare. And for what? In the future, still unknown, it is impossible, for unknown objects can not form the basis for comparison.
Then the comparison can only be with the past. One of the most significant utilities [...]

San Antonio
In the city of Padua in Italy, I visited the famous basilica of San Antonio. I remember one column inside the box was a Franciscan, firm, strong "tending to a bit of serious obesity-face. The position of his hand was of one who teaches.
I asked one of [...]

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Velázquez's famous painting "Las Meninas" is justly one of the highest points of the art
The grace and ingenuous child of Infanta, dignified affection and respect of young noblemen who serve it, the arrogance of the Knight of Santiago which is left [...]

McDonald's on Victoria Street
A few years ago, caught by a heavy rain, having to kill time for lunch with a friend who appeared to be in the Victoria Street (London), I took refuge in a block of granite, with tinted windows, home the branch of McDonald's, in the Westminster district. The [...]

A generally accepted principle in iconography "and which is, moreover, a consequence of simple common sense" mandates the appearance and demeanor of the images must reflect the virtues of the people they represent. Art contributes to the moral formation

Beau Dieu of Amiens
the faithful.
That principle which gives [...]

The beautiful castle of Ludwig II of Bavaria (Neuschwanstein)
Roger Scrutton, an influential English philosopher, explains his thesis on the beauty and easy way to reach God in the Roman Congress of the Italian Episcopal Conference. (CIS).
This idea is being illustrated with numerous articles in our section Environments, Customs, Civilizations, of this website. These [...]

Make the reader an exercise in imagination and assume that he can return to the time of Christ, and visit the modest room where the Holy Family lived in Nazareth. Upon entering, you find playing the Virgin and Child;

The first martyrs
The Italian painter Giotto represented in this fresco the massacre of the innocents which is in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and was painted between 1302 and 1306.
Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee, ordered the killing of all children younger than two years, upon the birth of our Redeemer, as [...]

Christmas Bells
It was Christmas Eve 1223 and the residents of Greccio, a small village in Italy, had gathered in a cave to represent the birth of the Christ Child. Due to cold, the only non-human figure was Jesus. A poorly dressed man approached