TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Cave Artists and the Cattle of Lascaux
2. Egyptian Tombs: Art for Eternity
3. A Medieval Pieta: God as Man and Man as Child
4. Music of Pure Prayer: “Christus factus est obediens” and the Medieval Chant “Requiem”
5. Giotto: A Pre-Renaissance Pieta
6. Michelangelo’s Pietas: Scale and the Supernatural
7. Music of Perfection: Victoria’s “Requiem” and Palestrina’s
8. Creation of Adam: Humans in the Image of God
9. Bruges Madonna and Child: God in Human Image
I0. At Supper with the Lord – and Leonardo: “God and Man at Table Are Sat Down”
11. Eternity in an Hour: El Greco’s “Burial of the Count of Orgaz “
12. Music of Power: Gilles: A Baroque “Requiem”
Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” and “Worthy is the Lamb”
and Bach’s “Mass in B Minor”
13. Power in Weakness: Bernini’s “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa”
14. Human Passion in Sacred Art: Caravaggio’s “Deposition” and “The Supper at Emmaus”
15. Music of Precision: Mozart’s “Ave verum corpus” and “Requiem”
16. Classical Balance: David’s “The Death of Marat”
17. Music of Passion: The “Requiems” of Berlioz and Verdi
18. Music of Peace: Faure’s “Requiem”
19. Let There Be Light: Monet’s “Rouen Cathedral”
Rouault’s “Christ Mocked by the Soldiers” and Kandinsky’s “Accent in Pink”
20. Like a Dream: Dali’s “Corpus Hypercubus” and
“The Sacrament of the Last Supper”
21. Music of Pain: Britten’s “War Requiem”and Gorecki’s “Symphony Number 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”
22. A Conclusion and a Beginning: Lovers in the Hands of God and Rodin’s “Hand of God”