Dante’s vision

Dante claimed he had a vision of the Trinity while crossing a bridge over the Tiber in 1300 and the whole of the Divine Comedy leads up to an evocation of this vision in the last canto of the...

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Amazing there was a fifteenth century

I’m reading Eamonn Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars and at the same time there’s the BBC’s wonderful adaptation of Henry VI and Richard III.  Amazed to find there was a fifteenth century and things happened in it.  History...

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Erich Neumann on Rembrandt

"With Rembrandt...the object represented is quite unimportant, but even in the smallest sketch - of a beggar, for instance - he formulates the problems of the whole world and its need  for redemption, and at the same time bathes...

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