The Everything Carry-All
Gertrude worked the counter at Montague’s Whatever-You-Want Antiques and, though she wasn’t always agreeable, she agreed with the store’s name. You could find anything here.
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The Bookbinder’s Signet
The Curator’s Series: Book One – What it’s all about. A secret organization called the Anarchist is out to overthrow Western culture and replace it with a godless Marxist society. In Italy, the Anarchist destroys the culture one work of art at a time. For Alessandra Ristori, her search for her family’s story kindles her…
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Day One – Architect: Foundations, Spans, and Lanterns
Mark 1 – “This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah…” Of all the forms of art and kinds of artist, the one that gets to “play big” most often is the Architect. He may start with pen and charts (or CAD-CAM.) But, the medium of choice is often big…very Big! Space, acreage, height,…
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Day One – Mathematician and Faith
Most people don’t place mathematics with the Creative Arts – mainly because of traumatic algebra tests or unmemorized theorems. But the classical studies planted arithmetic squarely in the midst of seven primary liberal arts. Medieval philosophers so valued numbers that they declared “arithmetic to be pure numbers, geometry to be numbers in space, music to…
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Day One: Painter – Unlimited Beauty, Unlimited Palette
Piero lived in the 1400’s and spent nearly every day at a desk writing contracts and signing off on legal documents in an obscure village outside of the city of Florence. He would not even have made the history books except that, instead of retiring to his home after work, he spent his nights with…