Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'

12 December 2017

A Meditation on Taste

And they say that we 'moderns' have 'progressed' beyond our forefathers!


Not exactly to my personal taste, but compare

A minimalist, 'modern' dining room as can
be found in virtually any modern home.


Adorned for the glorification of God.


'Adorned' for the glorication of what?





Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, Venice


German Gothic


Polish Romanesque


Italian Romanesque


St Mary's Church, St Benedict, KS
'Kansas Gothic'


'Kansas Gothic' interior of St Mary's,
St Benedict, KS


Basilica of St Fidelis, Victoria, KS
'Kansas Romanesque'


'Kansas Romanesque' interior of
St Fidelis, Victoria, KS



Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Dodge City, KS
'Kansas Modernism' 


Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Los Angeles, CA
'California ???'
(YES! It IS a Church! Can't you see see Cross!?


If the contrast between the old and new, illustrated here, represents 'progress', I want none of it!

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