INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

“Beauty, precisely because of its characteristic of opening and broadening the horizons of human consciousness, of sending it back beyond itself, of looking out over the abyss of the Infinite, can become a way towards the Transcendent, towards the ultimate Mystery. Art, therefore, in all its expressions, in the moment in which it is confronted with the great questions of existence, with the fundamental themes from which the meaning of life derives, can take on a value, as well as educational and cultural, also religious and transform itself into a path of deep inner reflection and spirituality. ”
(Speech addressed to artists by Benedict XVI in 2009)