A select portfolio of works from Philadelphia sacred artist Anthony Visco

Locations
	National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "Blessed Stephen Bellisini", plaster; "Christ of Holy Saturday", bronze and marble relief; "Saint Rita in Ecstasy", bronze; Eucharistic Chapel tondo relief; "Beata Teresa Fasce", mural ; "Pax et Bonum," "The Peace Mural"; "The Three Patron Saints, John the Baptist, Nicolas of Tolentine and Augustine"
	The Catherine Pew Memorial Chapel Bryn Mawr Presbyterian, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania “Baptism, Eucharist and The Word” bronze triptych
	Old Saint Joseph's National Shrine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Stations of the Cross panels and the large relief sculpture “Religious Freedom"
	Saint John the Evangelist Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bronze statues of "Saint Francis" and "Saint Padre Pio"
	Villanova Province Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "St. Thomas of Villanova, Father of the Poor,” bronze figures
Artwork Mediums
	Drawings "Drawing has always been at the very heart of my work. To me it all comes from drawing and returns to it."
	Sculpture "The human figure although a focal point, becomes a sublime means to a spiritual realm."
	Paintings "...before it can be sacred or religious or devotional art, it must be beautiful and true." This section of the website is currently under construction. Please check back later.

The Shrine of
Our Lady of Guadalupe
La Crosse, Wisconsin

“The Shrine is a place of pilgrimage. It recalls the appearances of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 and proclaims once again her message of God’s mercy and love"

— Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, Dedication Message, July 31, 2008

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"To make sacred art is to wed one’s faith with one’s esthetics in hopes to bring even closer, “the created” to our Creator, to shorten the real or imagined gap between “the called” with the Caller. When the artist answers, when this invitation is met successfully, a covenant is formed; the work is sanctified. This covenant is then extended from God to artist and from artist to fellow believers and finally back to God again. It is this covenant that we wish to explore here. As faith and aesthetic works combine, the work in turn is employed to reflect those beliefs. As culture becomes infused with and by our trust and hope in God, sacred art becomes an indeterminate good, a means by which we may come together and witness the meeting of heaven and earth. Thus, sacred art can not ever be the same give and take between artist and society as secular art."

- From "The Anatomy of Sacred Art"
by Anthony Visco

Read Anthony Visco's biography.