Category Archives: What Fr. Z is up to

Stacks

Posted on 7 January 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is the stack on my desk at my left elbow. And this isn’t even my “to read” stack! You can tell I was working on something at the time these started to pile up.

Posted in What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged books
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The Feeder Feed: Theban Sphinx Edition

Posted on 31 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

You know the story of Oedipus. Here is a terracotta bell-krater from Paestum in S Italy. It is attributed to Python in the last quarter of the 4th c. BC. Closer. Closer. In S Italy the tragic Oedipus was sometimes … Read More →

Posted in On the road, The Feeder Feed, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged Oedipus, Sphinx, Thebes
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The Feeder Feed: Rose Without Thorns Edition

Posted on 30 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is a lovely statue of Mary, portrayed as a Queen, with her scepter of a stem of roses. She was made in about 1350. This statue is related to one in silver given by Jeanne d’Evreux to the Abbey … Read More →

Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, The Feeder Feed, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged Christological Goldfinch, Cloisters
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Impossible lunch

Posted on 29 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I came today to Veselka in the East Village. It is jammed but I slid into a seat at the counter. I am across from the grill where a very competent fellow is doing well. It brings back memories of … Read More →

Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged borscht, Ukranian, Veselka
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The Feeder Feed: Venetian Christological Goldfinch Edition

Posted on 28 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the Met in NYC there is a nice exhibit of paintings and drawings of the Venetian school. Here is a Madonna and Child Enthroned by Lorenzo Veneziano (+1372), obviously a Venetian painter. There are touches of the byzantine in … Read More →

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Catholic League’s 5th Ave Nativity Scene

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I posted some time ago about the Catholic League’s Creche or Nativity Scene in New York City. I went to find it today. Many people stopped to look qt it and take photos. I added a FourSquare location when I … Read More →

Posted in Just Too Cool, Linking Back, New Evangelization, On the road, Our Catholic Identity, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged Catholic League, Christmas
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The Feeder Feed: Met “Hoopoe” Edition

Posted on 26 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the new Near East section at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you are able to view “The Concourse of the Birds”, which is on a folio of the Mantiq al-Tair (Language of the Birds) of ‘Attar, painted in about … Read More →

Posted in On the road, The Feeder Feed, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged Hoopoe
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The Feeder Feed: tortured dove edition

Posted on 23 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, before a painting by Rubens (+1640) of the Holy Family with Sts John, Elizabeth, and a dove. Rubens has returned from some time in Italy, which affected his colors and composition, and … Read More →