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Abigail Leali

Writing & Publications

Atinlay Atelier

Literary Journal, Founder & Editor-in-Chief

“Arts & Crafts.” Atinlay Atelier, February 2024. (Essay)
“Household Gods.” Atinlay Atelier, February 2024. (Short Fiction)
“The Offertory.” Atinlay Atelier, February 2024. (Poetry)

Articles & Essays

"Ukiyo-e and Those Who Love It: Colors of Japan at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.” MutualArt Magazine, May 2025.
"Craft as Relationship: Eva Mechler, Master Furniture Maker.” MutualArt Magazine, January 2025.
"The School that Never Was: A Rambling Theory of Édouard Manet.” MutualArt Magazine, January 2025.
"Amplifying Echoes: War and Art in Modern Ukraine.” MutualArt Magazine, January 2025.
"The Serious Art of Textiles.” MutualArt Magazine, October 2024.
"The Spirit of Matter: Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago.” MutualArt Magazine, October 2024.
"Kerrie Smith’s Flora Ficciones: The Strength of a Moment.” MutualArt Magazine, October 2024.
"A Handful of Dust: The Georgia Pottery Collective.” MutualArt Magazine, September 2024.
"On Asemic Writing.” MutualArt Magazine, August 2024.
"Howard Lamar and the Lineage of French Modernism.” MutualArt Magazine, August 2024.
"Rebecca King Hawkinson's Hoof & Wing: Beyond Lascaux.” MutualArt Magazine, July 2024.
"Secondary Succession: The Great Chicago Fire.” MutualArt Magazine, June 2024.
"Returning, Reflecting, Rebuilding: The Art of Howard Lamar.” MutualArt Magazine, May 2024.
"The Way of Tea: Philippe Nault’s Chawan Landscapes.” MutualArt Magazine, March 2024.
"Truth in the Fantastic: The Art of Jeanette Lafontine.” MutualArt Magazine, February 2024.
"The Paradox of Novelty.” MutualArt Magazine, October 2023.
"Illuminated Manuscripts and the Value of Time." MutualArt Magazine, April 2023.
"Illustrations that Encouraged Children amid Industrialized Suffering." MutualArt Magazine, March 2023.
"From Illuminations to Posters: Lithographs, Photographs, and Art Nouveau." MutualArt Magazine, March 2023.
"Rubens and Brueghel: A Friendship amid Political and Religious Turmoil." MutualArt Magazine, February 2023.
"The Heart of Silence: Romanticism and the Sea." MutualArt Magazine, February 2023.
"A Port in the Storm: Victorian Family Life." MutualArt Magazine, February 2023.
"The Faust Narrative: Hubris Revisited." MutualArt Magazine, January 2023.
"A Brief History of the Christmas Crèche." MutualArt Magazine, December 2022.
"The Consolation of Art: Depictions of Homer's Iliad." MutualArt Magazine, November 2022.
"On the Meeting of Saints Francis and Dominic." MutualArt Magazine, October 2022.
"Homeward Bound: Ukiyo-e, Japonisme, and Cultural Integration." MutualArt Magazine, July 2022.
"Alphonse Mucha and Love in the Time of Commercialism." MutualArt Magazine, June 2022.
"How Sidney Paget's Illustrations brought Sherlock to Life." MutualArt Magazine, April 2022.
"Michelangelo's Artistic Struggle to Preserve Beauty and Faith." MutualArt Magazine, April 2022.
"On Death, Friendship, and Bernini's Salvator Mundi." MutualArt Magazine, March 2022.
"The Worth of a Woman: Beatrice Portinari in Victorian Painting." MutualArt Magazine, March 2022.
"The Aesthete and the Cathedral." MutualArt Magazine, February 2022.
"Caravaggio's Last Appeal." MutualArt Magazine, January 2022.

Columns

Art on Computers. MutualArt Magazine, February 2025-present.

A study of how digital art challenges traditional creativity and our experience of art.

"Composition and Harmony with Alessandro Manzella, Illustrator.” April 2025.
"Replicating Reality with Chris Hodgson, Material Artist.” March 2025.
"Man, Myth, and Medium.” February 2025.

Sacred Art. MutualArt Magazine, January 2023-present (hiatus).

An exploration of the history and meaning of the art that adorns the sacred spaces of world religions.

"Legacy and the Individual in Egyptian Art.” December 2024.
"Church and State in Russian Orthodoxy.” November 2024.
"Identity and Conflict in Korean Cultural Expression.” November 2024.
"Color and Pattern in Peruvian Art.” September 2024.
"Utility and Artistry in Puebloan Pottery.” July 2024.
"Endless Day, Endless Night: The Sámi People.” June 2024.
"The Problem of Modern Philosophy in Brutalist Churches.” May 2024.
"The Golden Temple and the Good Life.” May 2024.
"Daoism and the Art of Non-Action.” April 2024.
"Ambition and Peace in The Garden of the Inept Administrator.” March 2024.
"Shared Identity in Māori Toi.” February 2024.
"Balancing World s on Chinese Roofs.” January 2024.
"Collective Creation in Aboriginal Art.” November 2023.
"Transience and Continuity at the Grand Shrine of Ise.” October 2023.
"The Hope of History at Dohány Street Synagogue." May 2023.
"Multiplicity at Hindu Meenakshi Temple." March 2023.
"Expressing the Inexpressible at the Dome of the Rock." February 2023.
"Unity in Variety at Galla Placidia." January 2023.

Chasing Paradise. MutualArt Magazine, August 2022-January 2023.

An analysis of Japanese ukiyo-e art and its influence on the Victorian European Decadent movement.

"Addendum: Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Salomé." January 2023.
"De Profundis and the True Artist." December 2022.
"Oscar Wilde and the Art of Self-Annihilation." December 2022.
"Trouble in the Garden." November 2022.
"From Japan to Japonisme." November 2022.
"Life after the Fire." October 2022.
"Pure Land Buddhism and Ukiyo-e." October 2022.
"Japanese Aesthetics Part 2." September 2022.
"Japanese Aesthetics Part 1." September 2022.
"Art in Japan's Philosophical Tradition." September 2022.
"Introduction to Japanese Philosophy." September 2022.
"East and West, Then and Now." August 2022.

Dignity and Destruction. MutualArt Magazine, May-August 2022.

A philosophical exploration of The Course of Empire series by Thomas Cole.

"Divinity and the Empire." August 2022.
"The Individual and the Empire." July 2022.
"Nature and the Empire." June 2022.
"The Fall of an Empire." May 2022.
"The Rise of an Empire." May 2022.
"An Introduction to Thomas Cole's Course of Empire." May 2022.

Translations

French to English:

Chrétien, Jean-Louis. "Martha and Mary: The Double Hospitality." Translated by Abigail Leali. Communio International Catholic Review 47, no. 3 (2020): 472-502.

Theses & Academic Papers

"Homeward Bound: Japanese Aesthetics in Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Salomé." Presented at Hillsdale College on March 26, 2021.
"When Falls the Heart: Art & Moral Self-Revelation in Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray." Presented at Hillsdale College on February 12, 2021.
"A Bleeding Hand: Habit, Grace, and Free Will in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus." Presented at the University of Dallas' Braniff Undergraduate Conference in the Liberal Arts on January 16, 2021.

Editorial & Indexing Work

Joris-Karl Huysmans. The Durtal Saga. (Ex Fontibus Company)
John Saward. The Way of the Lamb. (Ex Fontibus Company)
Étienne Gilson. The Philosophy of St. Bonaventure. (Ex Fontibus Company)
Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies. (Ex Fontibus Company)
The Works of Athanasius. Edited & translated by John Henry Newman. (Ex Fontibus Company)
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. Reality. (Ex Fontibus Company)

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