Anthony Visco

Anthony Visco is the director of the Atelier for the Sacred Arts where he designs and produces works for the liturgical environment. He also teaches courses in sacred art both in Philadelphia and Florence, Italy.

Articles by Anthony Visco

Marko Rupnik: Modern Iconographer or Denier of the Incarnation?

Much has been said recently about the moral failings of ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. But what of the failures of his art?

Triumph of Beauty

The use and role of art in the Catholic faith is boundless and intentionally so.

In the Image and Likeness

In contemporary art history, modernist theory has always maintained that the goals of figurative arts, both sacred and secular, were a linear objective of achieving similitude—the likeness of the object or image perceived.

The Anatomy of Sacred Art: Ad Quid Venisti? Quo Vadiums?

The foundation of the cross shelters all who are homeless.

The Anatomy of Sacred Art

As the Old Testament begins with the Creation of the cosmos and the New Testament with the Incarnation of Christ, the Judeo-Christian world is reminded how the act of making becomes central to our faith.