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God made the world (here is Dosso Dossi's image of that work, and then God became visible as a Man. Christianity is therefore a visual faith, quickened by sight more than by any other sense, and Christians have always loved turning our religion and our world into art. There are few better ways of spending a half hour than meditating on a great painting of some event in the Christian story.
A particular mode of Christian painting is the icon.
We are lucky to have a living icon-maker as one of assistant priests in this parish: Fr John Walsted,
some of whose work is online.
Incomparably the best site on the Net for old paintings is the Web Gallery,
but you can also be delighted by virtual tours of the Metropolitan Museum
here in New York, the National Gallery in Washington,
the Hermitage
in St Petersburg, London's National Gallery
and British Museum, the Louvre,
and the Vatican
galleries.
For classic literature, see Project Gutenberg
and Questia.
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