Thus the 21st-century viewers of European Old Master religious art, even the Christians among us, are all "visitors to this Christian world," as John Drury warns us in his introduction.

From the title to the use of cleaning products as art materials, “ordinary hours” is the manifestation of Andersen’s artistic mission statement: to baptize the mundane with holiness ...

Art comes out of the church anyway, and even though modern art reacted against that, it still took up that holiness. It's about the temple and seriousness, which with curators and critics is like ...