Art:  A Window on Scripture

August 22, 2021

The ‘Christian Art’ website is the brainchild of Patrick van der Vorst, director of Sotheby’s, London for 14 years, and now studying for the Catholic priesthood in the Diocese of Westminster.

Visitors to his site can sign up for a daily email which contains the Gospel of the day and is accompanied by a work of art which is appropriate to that reading, along with a reflection on the artwork and the reading.

‘We simply give you the tools for you to meditate on the daily Gospel alongside a work of art’, he says.

Simple, it may be, but the results can be astonishing.

The often surprising art choices – ancient and modern, paintings, sculptures, installations, furnishings – and his imaginative commentary achieve at times the almost impossible: bringing the shock of newness to scripture passages long blunted by familiarity.

Learn more at www.newpilgrimpath.ie.