The Malaga artist Raúl Berzosa has made public on the social network Twitter the central painting of a triptych created for the Antinori Center for the Arts in Tampa (Florida), belonging to the Society of Jesus. In the painting, the painter develops the relationship between Jesuits and the seven Fine Arts. In the first mural, the centre of the composition is occupied by the Jesuit sun. In the lower part, kneeling, Saint Ignatius of Loyola prays for fruit for the Society. Around him are seven scenes linking the Jesuits and the fine arts. They are scenes of sculpture, music, painting, dance, cinema, literature, and architecture with artists such as Bernini, Dominico Zipoli, Rubens, Alfred Hitchcock, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Brother Andrea Pozzo.

In the second mural, the central figure is Saint Francis Xavier, behind whom we see Ennio Morricone, linked to the Jesuits since he composed the soundtrack "The Mission" in 1986, to the recent "Missa Papae Francisci" of 2015, composed to celebrate the bicentenary of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus, and which was premiered in the Church of the Gesù. At the top right we can see a scene from the film "The Mission". Seated in the right corner, reading the "Ratio Studiorum", which he himself approved in 1599, is Claudio Acquaviva, the fourth general of the Society of Jesus. In the left corner is Pierre Legros the Younger, a French sculptor who produced numerous works for the Jesuits. The whole group is surrounded by a group of student musicians from the school where this painting will be located.

We thank Raúl Berzosa for such a beautiful work, and look forward to the completion of the third part of this magnificent work.

(Detail photos collected by Berzosa in his publication)