 Maritain had a long-standing interest in art and the arts. From one of his earliest books, Art et scolastique (1920, Art and Scholasticism), through work addressing the painter Georges Rouault and the author, Jean Cocteau (e.g., Art and Faith: Letters Between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau, 1926 [1948]), to Frontières de la poésie (1935, Art and Poetry), Situation de la poésie (1938, The Situation of Poetry), Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (1953) and The Responsibility of the Artist (1960), one finds sustained attention given to the topic, and references to art appear throughout his work, particularly in his epistemology. This should be no surprise. Maritain’s wife, Raïssa, was a poet, and Maritain counted among his friends and acquaintances the artists, Marc Chagall and Georges Rouault, the authors Georges Bernanos, Jean Cocteau, and Julien Green, and the composer Arthur Lourié.