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9.7.2023
Nursing Madonnas: Treasured Images of Tender
Care
Images of the Blessed Mother nursing the infant Christ first appear in the Americas in the early 1500s. Learn more and see a selection items from the Marian Library's collections.
9.7.2023
The Art of
Teaching
How a trip to the Dayton Art Institute helps prepare primary school teacher candidates to head into the classroom.
8.11.2023
A Pairing of Assumption Art and Poetry
A facsimile of a 16th-century engraving by Albrecht Dürer partners well with a 13th-century poem by St. Anthony of Padua.
8.1.2023
Water
Ways
Dive into the many summertime joys of water and some artworks in the Marian Library that are filled with it.
7.25.2023
Christmas in
July
Learn the history of this unofficial holiday and why it means so much more in the Marian Library.