{"id":1470,"date":"2016-12-07T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2016-12-07T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:27:12","slug":"holy-city-paintings-displayed-at-national-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Holy City paintings displayed at National Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1471\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"557\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, Brian Whelan has created countless paintings of holy cities, which he describes as \u201cthin places where heaven and Earth seem so close as to actually touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whelan, who lives in the western Loudoun County village of Waterford, is particularly fascinated by the idea of cities where shrines, temples, cathedrals and mosques attract pilgrims of the three Abrahamic faiths \u2014 Judaism, Christianity and Islam \u2014 coexisting in peace and harmony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/waterford-artists-work-is-on-display-at-washington-national-cathedral\/2016\/12\/02\/6239a374-b653-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.3beabf41a570\" target=\"_blank\">Nine of Whelan\u2019s paintings are on display in \u201cHoly City,\u201d an exhibition running through January at the Washington National Cathedral<\/a>. The works are arranged in rows of three, forming a 9-by-12-foot mural in which the scenes blend seamlessly. Having exhibited his works at the cathedral previously, he approached officials about displaying his paintings of holy cities, which he had completed over two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/waterford-artists-work-is-on-display-at-washington-national-cathedral\/2016\/12\/02\/6239a374-b653-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.3beabf41a570\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, December 4, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two decades, Brian Whelan has created countless paintings of holy cities, which he describes as \u201cthin places where heaven and Earth seem so close as to actually touch.\u201d Whelan, who lives in the western Loudoun County village of Waterford, is particularly fascinated by the idea of cities where shrines, temples, cathedrals and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy City paintings displayed at National Cathedral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94,60,165],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-arts","tag-religion","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}