Oakland diocese recommends visit to “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest” exhibit as Lenten activity

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Oakland diocese recommends visit to “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest” exhibit as Lenten activity

The Diocese of Oakland is recommending a visit to a museum exhibit entitled “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest” as an appropriate Lenten activity “for various parish groups.” 

The exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California began on Feb. 26 and runs through May 29. 

According to the museum website, the exhibit features arts from the Missions of Northern New Spain in a “stunning exhibition exploring the rich artistic legacy of the Franciscan and Jesuit mission churches in northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Many of the missions were exuberantly decorated with lavish paintings, sculpture, furniture, and liturgical objects and vestments. This extraordinary exhibition, which originated at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City), features approximately 110 objects from collections in Mexico, the United States, and Europe -- including masterpieces from the missions themselves -- shown together for the first time.” 

The website says the Oakland Museum of California is “the only California venue for this internationally traveling exhibition and one of only two venues in the United States.”

 

Read more here: http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=16292fbc-c022-4195-b570-27d07c7a9a9d

 

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