The Guild Review

O God, Who crowned the innocence and holiness of the virgin Cecilia with the wreath of heroic martyrdom and consoled her with t...

I love comics. My newspaper, the Financial Times , is in other respects an admirable publication but, sadly, has no comics. From time to...

The concept of a city built on a waterfall was first brought to my attention by James Gurney's Waterfall City (pictured above) in Din...

Readers of this blog will know that  I am interested  in  designing better heraldry  for my local institutions in Virginia.  Today I would ...

Thanks to the Financial Times I discovered the works of James Tissot (1836-1902).  This Franco-British artist came from a background of t...

The winner of this year's runner-up Grand Prix at Cannes was Of Gods and Men ( Des hommes et des dieux ), a French film directed by Xav...

The other day, while reading up on surrealism (as part of a quick study of Interwar culture), I happened upon this painting, Les Six élément...

Art has a two-fold function. First, it should reflect the times, the zeitgeist, the present state of things. Second, it should be normativ...

I recently read an interesting poem, entitled " Bavarian Baroque ," by Gail White : At first it's like a painted teacup invert...

The things we’ll do for art’s sake! Some people, worshipers in the cult of genius , will attribute to artists a godlike status, exempting th...

There is a certain type of empirical judgment [concerning art], which has spread due to the influence of English and French travelers. One e...

Last weekend I had to attend a conference in Washington, DC, so I took a little extra time to meet up with my brother, as well as some UD (a...

Some months ago, I wrote a post asking what the best way to sponsor art was. That post was prompted by an article (which I can't seem t...

Normally the name "The Guild Review," if it means much of anything at all, is a loose reference to academia, the last major surviv...

One day I stumbled upon an image which was new to me, though no doubt familiar to many people: the Luther Rose (seen left). In a letter fro...

Peter Aspden of the Financial Times recently wrote an article titled "Of Classicists and Carbuncles" , about the Prince of Wales...

At the very beginning of his autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) , Goethe describes the house he grew up in, with specia...

Last week I shared a rather whimsical (if ultimately serious) painting by James C. Christensen . But this week I would like to consider so...

I recently came upon this work by James C. Christensen , titled "Michael the Archangel Battles the Dragon While Almost Nobody Pays Any ...

I was recently reading an Economist article, "A Very European Hero" , which pointed out that a 1949 French law - still in force - ...