On a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]

“Experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can “actualize” their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.”
A substantial amount of interest in spiritual experiences recently appears to be from a re-emergence of interest from the (unofficial) pastoral school of thought in psychology. For ins…[Read more]

Geertz, perhaps the most influential of the anthropologists, contends that symbolism and meaning are central to religion: “The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not o…[Read more]

Einstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]

This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

“Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art – dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art….. Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social…[Read more]

Digital Humanities has become a “hot” topic in academia over the last few years (as of 2012), primarily in research and scholarship. While many push forward into new realms of using technology to articulate cool findings, others at non research intensive universities are moving forward with engaging their undergraduate students in var ious for…[Read more]

The name of Joaquina Mayol Bazo (Málaga, 1830 – 1915) is linked to her former husband, the photographer Eugenio Lorichon, son of the legendary pioneer of photography in Spain: Enrique Lorichon. Joaquina worked as an independent photographer in Malaga from 1860 to 1865, above all, under the name of Viuda de Lorichon. / El nombre de Joaquina Ma…[Read more]

This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

In the Madrid photographic panorama between 1857 and 1868, the presence of Ángel Alonso Martínez is a permanent note, which does not correspond to the scant knowledge we have of his professional career. We intend to shed some more light on this signature: «A. Alonso Martínez and Brother». / En el panorama fotográfico madrileño entre 1857 y 1868,…[Read more]

Discover unique photographs by pioneer photographers in Spain: Clifford, Masson, Lorichon, Blanco, Clonwek, Napoleón, Franck y Sanz y Benito, Conde de Lipa, Massari and more… The primitives in the Fernández Rivero Collection of Old Photograph.

Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.