Something Beautiful

Oatmeal (with Keats)

Did you know that you could invite John Keats to join you for breakfast?  and that he would accept?   

Read all about it in the marvelous poem Oatmeal, by Galway Kinnell. 

St. Augustine cycle (Gozzoli)

The Italian artist Benozzo Gozzoli covered an entire chapel with scenes from the life of St Augustine.   They are exceptional for their color and detail.   Here are the ten best-preserved scenes, all done in 1463-65 --

School of Tagaste   (description)

St Augustine teaching in Rome   (description)

St Augustine departing for Milan   (description)

Arrival in Milan   (description)

Reading St Paul's Epistle   (description)

Baptism   (description)

Parable of the Holy Trinity   (description)

Death of St Monica   (description)

St Augustine's vision of St Jerome   (description)

Funeral of St Augustine   (description)

Gregory IX

This fresco by Raphael is not anything special really, and yet it is beautiful -- Gregory IX approving the Decretals, 1511.