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Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 7:45 PM"Art, Elevation, and the Liturgy": A Course with Elizabeth Lev
Six Tuesdays, March 16, 23, and 30, April 6, 13, and 20
The Archdiocesan Online School of Pastoral Ministry offers a six-part live webinar series exploring the history of art in the context of the liturgy, specifically works designed to elevate the mind, heart, and spirit during the Mass. The presenter is Dr. Elizabeth Lev. The class will study the glittering mosaics in the baptisteries and apses of Ravenna and Rome, the dazzling vaults and stained glass of the Gothic cathedrals, the triumph of linear perspective in Renaissance altarpieces, the majestic, raised altars of the Counter-Reformation and the soaring Baroque baldacchinos.
Students will see how, over many centuries and in differing forms, art was used to enhance the experience of the Eucharist and evoke the mystery of the sacraments, and how beauty is an essential force for persuading us not to focus on the distractions of this world but to raise our eyes and hearts to things divine. Elizabeth Lev is an art historian whose work is internationally known and whose TED talks are widely viewed.
For complete information and to register, visit sfarch.org/liftupyoureyes.
[The photo of St. Peter's Basilica is by Jorge Royan.]