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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2014, 03:38 PM Apr 2014

Seminary parts with its collection of Thomas Eakins portraits

Mary Beth McCauley

PHILADELPHIA (RNS) No one is certain why renowned painter Thomas Eakins liked riding his bike to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the early 1900s.

Was the Quaker-born painter, considered among the most important artists in American art history, searching for answers to life’s big questions at the Roman Catholic seminary?

Did the liturgical richness suit his artistic temperament as a finely detailed realist painter?

Did the academic atmosphere feed his intellectual curiosity?

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/04/02/seminary-parts-collection-thomas-eakins-portraits/

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