New for September 2018

September 2, 2018

New for September 2018

Christians pay homage to the Hosts of Heaven this month at Michaelmas on September 29th. In keeping with this feast day, I am adding four new images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection to the From Realms of Glory gallery of the Themes of Faith section depicting angels as administrators of divine justice at the End of Time.  Berlin-based Photographer Josef Albert Slominski, best known for his pictures of all seven postwar Popes, shows us an apocalyptic angel reading from a doomsday book in a silkscreen print derived from a photo of a medieval artifact. Czech Graphic Artist Herbert Kizsa also finds inspiration in the angelic art of an earlier age in his etching of St. Michael warring with the satanic dragon of the Book of Revelation (left) taken from a famous late 15th century woodcut by Northern Renaissance Master Albrecht Durer. The climactic struggle is taking place in the skies above the German artist's hometown of Nuremberg. The Archangel appears again flying over what must surely be the city of Prague, weighing wealth against wisdom in his traditional scales of justice, in an etching by Czech Artist and Illustrator Jan Konupek. In the decades when the American Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, Maryland Printmaker Ruth Starr Rose brought people of color into mainstream American religious art in images like her 1947 color lithograph of the African-American spiritual, Dem Golden Slippers, where a lily white angel presents those very special walking shoes to blacks entering a multi-racial Heaven. (John Kohan)