Dawn Pheysey, Curator of Religious Art for the BYU Museum of Art, with a Carl Bloch altar piece
It’s been years in the making, but Dawn Pheysey, Curator of Religious Art for the BYU Museum of Art, can still hardly believe they are all here together; five of the eight huge Carl Bloch masterpieces which have graced churches across Denmark and Sweden for over a hundred years.
In this walk-through of the exhibit we’ll hear the history of the pieces, learn about the other Bloch paintings and etchings in the show which have been beloved by LDS members for half a century, and try to answer the question Danish priests have asked for years, “What is it the Utah Mormons see in these paintings?” Follow the exhibit visually as you listen by opening a browser window to https://carlbloch.byu.edu.
That’s this week on The Cricket and Seagull…
Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda
Christ and the Young Child – Carl Bloch
Christus Consolator – Carl Bloch
Christ in Gethsemane – Carl Bloch
The Doubting Thomas – Carl Bloch
