Peter Larisey, s.j., comes from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He attended St. Mary's University and the Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, then studied philosophy at the University of Montreal and theology at Regis College, Toronto. He received a Ph.D. in the history of modern art from Columbia University, New York, where his doctoral thesis was on the landscape painting of Lawren Stewart Harris. At present he is on the faculty of Regis College, in the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto, where he lectures on the relationship of religion and art, especially in the modern period.