Dusty Art

Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1505-1515), depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter.

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Snake Eyes (1998)

Snake Eyes (1998): Movie Review

An anti-war populist politician is assassinated in a crowd, during a boxing match in Atlantic City. The two people in charge of event security – a corrupt Atlantic City police officer (Nic Cage) and a straight-arrow military officer (Gary Sinise) – work to find out who was behind the killing.

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Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of St. Joseph of Cupertino (18 September) celebrates the 17th century Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and mystic, famous for both his struggles as a student and for the miracles that surrounded his life, the most famous of which included claims that he levitated.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of the city of Cupertino, air travelers, astronauts, and pilots.

+ Includes a recipe for “Flying Friar Pasta Salad”

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Dusty Buildings

Aachen Cathedral (Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

+ Built on the command of Charlemagne, this is one of the most historically rich, architecturally significant, and artistically beautiful buildings in Europe. It is the final resting place of Charlemagne and other Emperors. It is the home of four significant holy relics – St. Mary’s cloak, Christ’s swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist’s beheading cloth and Christ’s loincloth.

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Dusty Art

The Head of Medusa by Franz von Stuck (c. 1892) is considered to be one of the most chilling paintings ever created.

Stuck was part of the Symbolist movement and this is arguably the best of the “femme fatale” paintings that were prevalent in the movement.

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