The Perfect Pulp Evening

A lovely pulp scenario... As I wrote in a post some time ago,http://theracerx.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/pulp-fiction-a-lost-male-literary-genre, the old pulp magazines and novels were cheap but popular sources of fiction and entertainment before the…

More On Ovid

In one poem, Amores 1.5, Ovid describes seeing his lover standing in their bedroom, wearing a translucent robe in the late afternoon sun. He goes on to make love to…

Christmas!!!

The Nativity, by Gerard Van Honthorst Here is a  beautiful depiction of the Nativity by the Dutch master, Gerard Van Honthorst (1592-1656).  In this great worrk of Dutch art we…

Bernini: Great Artist

In celebration of Christmas, I thought I would write a little post on one of the great Catholic artists of all time: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Although Bernini is primarily…