Art & Music. Frederic Edwin Church -The Monastery of San Pedro & Ziv Moran - Days of Change

Art: Frederic Edwin Church -The Monastery of San Pedro Our Lady of the Snows
Music: Ziv Moran - Days of Change

Although the location that inspired the painting has been subject to scholarly debate, many believe it derives from Church’s travels through the Ecuadorean Andes nearly a quarter century earlier. The composition reads as an allegory of spiritual salvation: perched atop a dramatic cliff, a brilliantly backlit monastery overlooks a shadowed foreground where a solitary figure navigates a rugged path.