Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

Stephen Greenblatt

Tag: art renaissance swerve

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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

Stephen Greenblatt

Tag: art cervantes renaissance montaigne swerve

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