Denise Marie Scalzo: “Promoting a Culture of Peaceful Encounter Between Palestinians and Israelis”
International exhibitions always give us the opportunity to meet inspiring people. In this interview, Denise Marie Scalzo, a founding member of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land (based in San Diego, California), looks back on her long relationship with the Holy Land. A lay Franciscan, advisor for the Holy Land, and member of the Western Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Denise Marie Scalzo offers us an American perspective on the museum project and the current exhibition at the Frick Collection.
Artist and Franciscan: Art as a Path of Evangelization
The Terra Sancta Museum - Art & History is not the only artistic work of the Custody of the Holy Land. The Magnificat music conservatory and its choir, as well as individual friars, explore the relationship between art and mission. We meet one of them, Brother Balu.
The Terra Sancta Museum through the eyes of an Israeli Archaeologist
David Gurevich is the director of the Institute of Archaeology at Ariel University. He loves fascinating discoveries in Jerusalem and he is a licensed tour guide for over 20 years.
New York, 2025: Christian religious art in the spotlight!
The Frick Collection in New York rolled out the red carpet for the Treasure of the Holy Sepulcher by inaugurating the exhibition “To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum” on October 2. This is the first exhibition of its kind on American soil, and certainly not the last!
Benoît Constensoux, a spiritual perspective on art
Art is not just a technical matter; it has a soul. This is what Benoît Constensoux, an art historian with a passion for the Holy Land and co-curator of our upcoming exhibition at the Frick Collection in New York, reveals to us.
The oldest organ in Christendom plays again after eight hundred years of silence
On September 9, in Jerusalem, the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences and the Terra Sancta Museum present major discoveries about The Organ of Bethlehem.
