Painting Salvation: A fresh look at twelve classical paintings

by Armand de Malleray, FSSP

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Publication date: 2/27/2026
Pages: 216
Size: 8 x 10

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Like sails, paintings consist of canvas stretched across perpendicular frames to reach some destination yet unseen. The twelve paintings commented upon here display before our minds some limited aspect of God's revelation: his Incarnation, his childhood, the calling of his apostles, his sacrifice, his Resurrection, and the witness of his saints. Our commentaries seek to reveal the beating heart of famous images. A feast for the mind even of the unbeliever, our approach will set in motion these ingenious paintings as powerful systems of signification. These pictures move—like sails catching the wind. Many images are stored in our memory, which we wish were not. Our enjoyable healing will furnish our intellect with beautiful pictures designed as vehicles of truth to cleanse and refine our outlook on the world, on people and, fundamentally, on God and eternity. Land ahoy, then, or heaven ahead!

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"A magnificent initiative to evangelise through culture and beauty." —Paul Cardinal Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

"A compelling journey for both art lovers and seekers of the divine, this book reminds us that beauty and truth are eternally intertwined." —Dr. Jan Christoph Bentz, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford University

"An enjoyable and intelligent analysis of the pictorial and spiritual 'anatomies' of famous paintings we thought we knew." —James Tyldesley, Artist and University Lecturer in Fine Arts, London UK

"This lovely, short book encourages the reader to see all things in a more true, more sacramental light. A highly recommended spiritual work." —James Gillick, Renowned painter and portraitist of Pope John-Paul II & Margaret Thatcher