Could it be a time to reclaim their call to authentic beauty? By Aurelio Pofiri * As we all know, in 2025 there will be a Jubilee in Rome, and I — who live in Rome — am able to truly experience how the city is preparing for this significant religious event, with the hope of [...]
We need our own "cultural revolution" By Aurelio Pofiri Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore. Festival of Music and Sacred Art, concert by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra As I write these lines, I have just returned from a Renaissance polyphony concert. In this concert, pieces from the Roman school were performed. The choir was a [...]
The Regina Coeli showed me a spark of the beauty that comes from God By Aurelio Pofiri* Andrea Mantegna, The Madonna of the Cherubim, Italy, Lombardy, Milan, baroque palace Brera, Brera Pinacoteca Latin: Regina Caeli Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. Gaude [...]
