The Secrets of Sacred Art

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories.

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A roofless, wall-less church of white metal tubes stands in a Chinese lavender field, praised by architects for how completely it disappears. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray ask what a building says when it is built to vanish.

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A Magnificat bookmark turns into a full rabbit hole back into the Ghent Altarpiece. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray zoom into Van Eyck's endless blue horizon and the restoration secrets it just gave up.

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Sacred art hides secrets that never make the show. Alix Murray and Kathryn Laffrey launch Secrets of Sacred Art Rabbit Holes — quick, off-the-cuff dives into the art, churches, and saints that stopped them in their tracks.

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Fra Angelico's early Crucifixion panel is barely bigger than a cabinet door — and only the Virgin Mary looks straight at you. Alix Murray and Kathryn Laffrey trace every figure's gaze and find a tiny pelican hidden in the cross.

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