Steve Auth
- 1 min
Love can be lonely
Love can also at times be lonely. In Domenico Campagnola’s version of the story, the Samaritan seems little more than a speck within a...
Steve Auth
- 1 min
Love Requires All Our Strength
A more heroic version of this story can be found in Delacroix’s great masterpiece, painted some 200 years after David Teniers’. In...
Steve Auth
- 3 min
Love Can Transform
The final painting we reflected on was Rembrandt’s great 17th century masterpiece, titled as the others “The Good Samaritan.” Rembrandt...
Steve Auth
- 1 min
Love is Tender
In Teniers’ small study of this same subject, we see an entirely different aspect of Love. Here, the scene is brighter and even almost...
Steve Auth
- 2 min
Hold Onto Love
In a world where love is in increasingly short supply, Jesus’ message to “love thy enemy” too often can seem out of place. After all,...