Artist Study - Claude Monet (1840-1926; French Impressionist)

 

Artist Study - Tintoretto (1518-1594; Renaissance)

 

Artist Study - Raphael Sanzio - (1483-1520 Italian Renaissance)

 

Artist Study - Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890; Dutch Post-Impressionist)

 

Into Spring with Van Gogh

 

Artist Study - J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851; English Romanticist) - Painting the Industrial Revolution

Heroine of Trafalgar: The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up

 

Artist Study - Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Artist Study - Jan Vermeer (1632-1675 - Dutch Baroque)

AO Artist Study - John Constable

Winslow Homer - Artist Study

New Artist - Peter Paul Rubens - (1577-1640)

Art Class: Giotto di bondone: Hope and Desperation, 1306

There seems to be no better illustration of desperation than drug addiction and living one's life solely for the next high. No thought of family, friends, vocation, marriage, children etc.

Book: In the  Realm of Hungry Ghosts :

Shakespeare: HAMLET

To be, or not to be? That is the question—

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—

No more—and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life....

... Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country from whose bourn

No traveler returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

New Artist - James McNeill Whistler

Art Class: Giotto di bondone: Justice and Injustice, 1306

Shakespeare: Othello: Act 5 Scene 1: 

Iago: He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly; 

Before ever considering the justice of God and how He exercises it, we must well consider that He is a Holy God. What happens when a Holy God meets an unholy people? Indignation happens. A Holy God who is indignant must needs judge. Sodom and Gomorrah and Jesus driving the money changers out of the temple are an example. Isaiah 6

As Anne of Austria once remarked to Cardinal Richelieu: "God does not pay at the end of every day, my Lord Cardinal, but at the end, He pays."

Hymn: Hail Sovereign Love that first began the scheme to rescue fallen man. by Jehoida Brewer
Indignant justice stood in view,
To Sinai’s fiery mount I flew,
But Justice cried with frowning face,
“This mountain is no hiding place!”

Poem: The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson

I FLED Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.	5
Up vistaed hopes I sped;
And shot, precipitated,
Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears,
From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.
But with unhurrying chase,	10
And unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
They beat—and a Voice beat
More instant than the Feet—
‘All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.’

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Bible Study: The Holiness of God: Holiness and Justice examines the meaning of holiness and why people are both fascinated and terrified by a holy God. This series closely explores God’s character, leading to new insights on sin, justice, and grace. The result is a new awareness of our dependence upon God’s mercy and a discovery of the awesomeness of His majestic holiness. R.C. Sproul says, 'The holiness of God affects every aspect of our lives — economics, politics, athletics, romance — everything with which we are involved.'"

Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Art Class: Giotto di bondone: Prudence - Foolishness, 1306

• We watched the movie: 12 Angry Men
• Read the article on the The Imaginative Conservative about examining the corrosive effects of prejudice, which is at heart a failure of the virtue prudence. The classical tradition considered prudence to be the leader or "charioteer" of the other virtues, setting their rule and measure...HERE
• We scoured our upcoming summer schedule and in light of past summer time consumers, eliminated a lot of imprudent activities, regaining hours, days, weeks and, 'gasp' MONTHS!
• We watched the PBS Frontline Documentary - Two American Families and discussed how quickly life tends to happen and why it is so very important to get off the 70mph life-train and think, look ahead and most importantly ask the question: "How has this worked out for me in the past, how am I doing now and where am I going, exactly." Proverbs 22:3 " A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."
• Proverbs 12:16, Prov 12:23, Proverbs 19:4, Proverbs 13:16,  Prov 14:15m , Prov 18:15,  Proverbs 14:18.
• Abigail, Nabal and David...or as our Abigail would put it..."David attacks Nabal for a Vineyard"
• Moses and his father-in-law: Jethro
• Nehemiah oversees the building of the walls of Jerusalem
• Rehoboam and the aged counsellors: Out with the old and in with the new.
• David and Ahithophel.

Art Class: Giotto di Bondone: Infidelity and Faith, 1306

On fidelity and faithfulness towards others and in marriage, we watched a biography of  princess Diana's turbulent life, destroyed by unfaithfulness and selfishness. 

Bible Study Today: Luke 17. Offences are bound to come but woe to him or she by whom they come.

Christian Modesty in Dress: Validating the Gospel through modesty. 

 The type of sermon that would get most pastors handed their heads on a platter. Richard Baxter has this to say on the subject of Christian modesty in dress: "And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion, For you must consider that you live among diseased souls! And you must not lay a stumbling-block in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it."

Art Class: Giotto di Bondone: Wrath and Temperance. 1306

Grandfather Thomas from The Little Britches series by Ralph Moody: The Fields of Home: a man who let rage and foolish anger destroy precious relationships with brothers, nephews and housekeepers whom he desperately needed and loved.
James 1:19-20, Eph 4:26-31, Proverbs 2911, Proverbs 19:11, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Proverbs 15:18, Colossians 3:8, Proverbs 16:32, Proverbs 22:24.
Ralph Moody learns to deal with a wrathful, difficult relative... The Fields of Home in which the ever swearing grandpa aggravates Ralph calling him a “tarnal fool boy” as uncle Levi tries to keep the peace. Grandpa also does not like new inventions which he calls “tarnal contraptions” as they must not outdo him. Actually, nobody is allowed to out-anything, grandpa. Millie the cook has had it, no more victuals and real dynamite is flying. Ralph who does not like to be called Ralphy is agitated but he must must stir his stivers for times are a flying!

Art Study: Giotto di Bondone: Envy and Charity, 1306

1. Song: Beloved, let us love one another, James 4:2-3, Proverbs 14:30, Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 13:4, Psalm 37:1, Proverbs 24:19, Joseph and his brothers, The tenth commandment Exodus 20, I Peter 2:1-3, Matt 20:1-16, Galatians 5:26, Titus 3:3.
2. PragerU: Don't compare yourself with others Prov 23:17, Daniel 6:1-8
3. Do not covet: seeking to own that which belongs to someone else.
4. Biography: We watched Michael Jackson's biography, Psalm 139:14, I Timothy 6:6,
5. Hymn: Count your blessings.
6. Read: Embrace the life you have “Occasionally, weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.” - John Piper
7. Memory chapter: I Corinthians 13
8. Memory verse: I Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Shakespeare Sonnet 29:

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

(Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Art Class: Giotto di Bondone: Fortitude and Inconstancy, 1306

So much to talk about. Mental and emotional strength in times of difficulty, courage, Battle-hymn of the Republic, fickle, variable, moody, mutability, Galatians 6:9, Psalm 73:25-26, I Peter 1:13, Ephesians 6:10-18, James 1:17, I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19, Psalms 33:11, Malachi 3:6, Shakespeare's Henry V, Damon and Pythias and on the attributes of Almighty God: Immutable.

Artist Study: Hans Holbein the Younger

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