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Nora Hamerman

Nora Hamerman writes on cultural topics for Catholic publications and lectures in the Osher Lifelong Learning program in Maryland. She has a degree in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and is a former Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the National Gallery of Art in Italy.

Walters exhibit showcases rare missal linked to St. Francis, El Greco painting

October 15, 2026
By Nora Hamerman
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News

Just in time for the Jubilee Year of St. Francis declared by the Holy Father, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is exhibiting one of its most precious artifacts: the St. Francis Missal, an early 13th-century book of texts for the Mass that played a seminal role in the history of the Franciscan movement.

Walters Art Museum

Painting of St. Rose of Lima is part of Walters Art Museum exhibition

June 25, 2025
By Nora Hamerman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News

Just in time for the elevation to the papacy of Pope Leo XIV, the American-born cardinal who was for many years a missionary in Peru, the Walters Art Museum is displaying a rare treasure of the Catholic Church in colonial Peru.

Excellence in women’s devotional art on display at Baltimore Museum of Art

November 18, 2023
By Nora Hamerman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News

“The Education of the Virgin,” is now on view in the exhibit “Making Her Mark” at the Baltimore Museum of Art and is one of many works that are worth a visit to this grand show of what female artists achieved in the pre-modern era before 1800.

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