Only Raphael, infinitely superior in design, depth, power, & style to Michelangelo & all other painters; only Raphael could produce works of such scope as his Parnassus, School of Athens, & Triumph of Religion.pic.twitter.com/VbELJNOzIN
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The father's mute rage, the mother's powerless despair, and the absurd, gratuitous torture inflicted on their child show how suffering, poor excuses, panic, and confusion are the true nature of this world engulfed in darkness. But a man points to something.pic.twitter.com/4ZkKkCer16
No one, engrossed as they are in the chaos of the world, bothers to look up. But up there on the hill, the skies have opened and a blinding, an infinite light spurts forth, instantly stunning its witnesses.pic.twitter.com/oKvyvHwMPk
But the theophany is too violent for this world, which has to trust, to depend on, a testimony, a promise; something it is not ready to do. An impassable chasm separates the divinity & its light from a hopeless, darkened world, & suffering lingers on, absurd & unexplained.pic.twitter.com/hQ78YCyz7b
The artistic and philosophical final word of Raphael was that of an unsurpassable separation, an absence, and how the true artist, the true philosopher, cast among this unceasing tragicomedy, nevertheless points up there, out there, to the all-ending light.
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