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To: Nick5
art is perceived through an act of intellect that ultimately resonates in the heart.

Absolutely. That's what knowledge is. Of course, there are aspects of Reason that lie beyond the intellect, as Pascal reminds us:

Le cœur a ses raisons
que la raison ne connaît point;
on le sait en mille choses.

I was in Rome last summer and went into the church where the Caravaggio paintings of the St. Matthew story are and I stood there looking and looking and taking it in and by the end I was just sobbing.

What a powerful story! I had a similar experience with the Chagall windows at the Art Institute of Chicago a couple of years back.

49 posted on 11/22/2007 10:21:37 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan

Going waaay off thread here: you say you are a monarchist. Very interesting. Is there a claimant to the American throne somewhere? Or would we revert to the Hanoverians? My father was born in Russia in 1913, emigrated to Canada and finally to the USA and once told me: “I lived under the Czar, under Kerensky, under Lenin, under Stalin, under King George V and under 12 U.S. Presidents, and from my fairly wide experience I will tell you: the best government of them all is constitutional monarchy.”


51 posted on 11/22/2007 11:04:17 PM PST by Nick5
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