by Bruce Petrie Jr., Board of Trustees Chair, Cincinnati Art Museum

6/30/2026

Sacred Art, SketchCAM

As my wife Mimi and I walk through the front entrance of Paris’s reborn, post-fire Notre Dame Cathedral, we feel the familiar connection to that other welcoming entrance: the main doors of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

by Bruce Petrie, President, Board of Directors

5/14/2025

Sacred Art, Jacopo Tintoretto

For billions of people worldwide, there is spiritual significance to the fact that the papal conclave is held in the Sistine Chapel inside Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica, immersing the participants in one of the most profound works of sacred art ever made.