Tema: Traditional Western Christian Art Still Being Made

Traditional Western Christian Art Still Being Made

Traditional Western Christian art is still being made and appreciated throughout the world. On September 20, 2014, the oratory Santa María Reina of the Hermandad de las Penas in Málaga, Andalusia, (one of the numerous Brotherhoods responsible for Holy Week and other processions in Spain), opened its new painted ceiling to public view and the Blessing of the priest who is the diocesan delegate for Brotherhoods and Confraternities. It does not matter if it is or is not an epoch-making masterpiece, or that it may or not include elements of pastiche, what matters is that Western art forms be not lost and that this suicidal self-hatred of Western European Civilization, including in the visual arts, be abandoned for good -- the epoch-making masterpieces will eventually show up, as they always did.


The work is by local artist Raúl Berzosa. Congratulations to him on this beautiful new work clearly made with great love and respect for the venerable artistic traditions of Catholic Spain, and to the Cofradía for its commission.

Since the Oratory is dedicated to the Queenship of the Virgin, Pope Pius XII is depicted proclaiming Ad Caeli Reginam

(Several sources, by way of the Brotherhood's Twitter account.)


RORATE CÆLI: Traditional Western Christian Art Still Being Made

Pictures of a Mural of the Crowning of the Virgin from Malaga, Spain

by David Clayton The artist Raul Berzosa has sent me the following pictures of his recently completed project. It is of the ceiling of the Oratory of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, Málaga, Spain. It took him a year to paint, the work, all in acrylic; the total size of the roof is 12.20 meters long and 9.62 meters wide, with a total of 130 square meters approximately. For moroe information, you can visit his website, ::: Ral Berzosa ::: Pintor ::: Arte en sus manos :::. This is a spectacular achievement, and it is good to see work of this sort being commissioned and executed. I hope there will be more. If I have one point to make, it is my usual one that my personal taste is to see more muted colour and shadow with the brightness concentrated on the principle foci of interest in the baroque fashion. However, I should state that I have seen only the photographs, and the work in situ. For a work like this the impact can be very different when viewed from where it is intended to be seen - this would be viewed ordinarily from a great distance away by observers looking up from the floor. The artist has no doubt designed it with this with this in mind.

New Liturgical Movement: Pictures of a Mural of the Crowning of the Virgin from Malaga, Spain