Charity Fresco at St. Thomas

On the ceiling in Terrence Murphy Hall on the University of St. Thomas’s Minneapolis campus, seven frescoes illustrate the seven virtues. Charity, which St. Thomas Aquinas deemed the greatest, is depicted as a majestic white pelican offering blood and as a woman giving nourishment to an ailing man on a city sidewalk. Minneapolis–based artist Mark Balma created the frescoes, which cover the building’s 17-by-112-foot ceiling and are accompanied by twelve pillars with portraits of university donors. LaSalle Ave. & 10th St., Mpls.