The French celebrate Bastille Day in July, and we will be looking this month at the legacy of Maurice Denis, the painter, printmaker, art historian, and theorist who was no less a revolutionary in freeing French sacred art from the saccharine sentimentalism of late 19th century Realism to bring it into the modern era. Denis is remembered as a generous co-worker and mentor of other art-makers, who founded Ateliers d’Art Sacre in 1919 as a studio to guide younger artists in creating works “that serve God, the teachings of the truth and the decoration of places of worship." We look this week at a 1929 printing of the Apocryphal Book of Tobias, newly added to the on-line Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, with illustrations in a post-symbolist, neo-classical style by Denis, cut into woodblocks by his longtime collaborator, Jacques Beltrand. In the coming weeks, we will be adding profiles of Beltrand and followers of Denis who became established art-makers in their own right. (John Kohan)