Blog Post by Katie Kresser, Ph.D
Katie Kresser, Ph.D7 min read
Art for the Ages: How the Old Masters are Relevant Today
Katie Kresser embarks on a journey to explore how art from the old masters can provide proof of the human soul and show commonalities among human beings.
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Aesthetics and Spirituality Conclusion: Rome as Case Study
Humans are spiritual animals immersed in a shared metaphysical ecosystem that elicits similar, beautiful responses all over the world.
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Aesthetics and Spirituality Part IV: Tombs
For eras, humans have created monuments and reliquaries as links with the afterlife. Their efforts attest to an understanding about the soul’s immortality.
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Aesthetics and Spirituality Part III: Transformation Through Dress
Throughout human history, artisans have created similar objects in response to their cultures’ religious impulses—including dress.
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Aesthetics and Spirituality Part II: Quests
This essay explains the holy quest or pilgrimage. I will divide this essay into three sections: Roads, Gateways and Lodestars.
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Aesthetics and Spirituality Part I: High Places
Over the millennia, the human species has made cultural objects that bear striking resemblance to each other despite distances of time and space.
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