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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., is president emeritus of Georgetown University and director of mission at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA.
“Top of the Rue de Champlain, View to the Right,” c. 1877-78
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Charles Marville’s photographs of a city transformed
Carpeaux's "Mater Dolorosa," 1870. (Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
His parents were horrible people. He was sickly all his life, dying eventually of an excruciating bladder cancer at only 48. His emotional life was often ungovernable. His at first rapturous marriage to a beautiful young aristocrat far above his station was plagued by suspicion, jealousy and outrigh
“The Toilet of the Princess,” attributed to John Vanderbank (active ca. 1680-1717)
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Well before globalization and technology unified the world, trade in textiles wove it both practically and sumptuously together.
Captain Charles A. and Sergeant John M. Hawkins, Company E, “Tom Cobb Infantry,” Thirty-eighth Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, 1861–62
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
For students of the American Civil War, it’s hard to imagine a better classroom this summer than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two sterling exhibitions there, one entirely devoted to photography, the other chiefly to painting, illumine the years from the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, So
Adoration of the Magi, c. 1514
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
You’ve probably noticed that in many paintings of the Adoration of the Magi, the youngest of the three kings is a black man. You may know that this convention began in the last quarter of the 15th century, and also that “Balthazar,” as he came to be named, represented Africa, while
"Berlin Abstraction," by Marsden Hartley (1914-1915)
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Delighting in the revelations of “Inventing Abstraction,” now at MOMA
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
This advent, look to John the Baptist as a model for Christian life today.
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.

The hard-won art of Ferdinand Hodler

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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.

How long do you look at a Warhol painting? You get the point almost immediately.

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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.

The Barnes Foundation's new Philadelphia campus