Dony MacManus

September 25, 2019

Interview with Dony MacManus

In this podcast, Emilio Longo interviews Catholic sculptor, Dony MacManus. Dony has become the leading authority on interpreting Saint Pope John Paul II’s teachings on Theology of the Body in the visual arts and has been teaching art students how to interpret the true meaning of the body in contemporary culture for over three decades. Founding his first academy of art in Ireland focused on teaching academic drawing, painting and sculpting techniques, the Irish Academy of Figurative Art and founding the Sacred Art School in Florence, Italy, MacManus is a pivotal figure in the Renaissance of figurative art as seen through a Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman and Roman Catholic framework. Topics covered include charting his biography from his initial exposures to art in high school, to undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, followed by his sojourn to the New York Academy of Art to attain a masters in academic sculpting skills, before long pursuing another masters in Liturgy, Art and Architecture completed at the European University of Studies, at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and finally to the motherland of Renaissance art, Florence, Italy.