"In a painting by Francisco Ribalta, Saint Francis beholds a wild-haired, lute playing angel who has floated into his rough cell on a cloud. Such paintings offered themselves as models of religious experience. The sufficiently devout and spiritually imaginative might one day be granted similarly arousing supernatural visitations."
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Saint Francis beholds a wild-haired, lute playing angel.
"In a painting by Francisco Ribalta, Saint Francis beholds a wild-haired, lute playing angel who has floated into his rough cell on a cloud. Such paintings offered themselves as models of religious experience. The sufficiently devout and spiritually imaginative might one day be granted similarly arousing supernatural visitations."
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