Art & Soul at St Paul's Cathedral | HENI Talks

Art, for me, is a process of trying to wake up the soul… because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

    — Bill Viola, artist.

How does art ‘wake up the soul’? There is perhaps no better place to explore this theme than St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London. Art historian Sandy Nairne walks through the architecture of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, pointing out how artists have responded to the sanctity of this historic space. He describes how early commissions by the Cathedral aimed to sustain belief in Christian worshippers, and how modern and contemporary artists including Henry Moore, Bill Viola and Mark Wallinger, have tried to express spirituality in a more secular age. In a building which receives international visitors of many faiths, the art of St Paul’s has the capacity to stir emotions in whoever takes a moment to look.
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Additional Credit / Creative Commons Information:

Portrait of John Donne
after Isaac Oliver, c. 1565-1617
NPG 1849
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

John Donne
Martin Droeshout, 1633
NPG D25948
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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