aesthetics

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**St Francis Receiving the Stigmata
**1240-50
Tempera on wood, 81 x 51 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
MASTER of San Francesco Bardi
Italian painter, Florentine school (active 1240-1270)
 
OK, you get the picture. :rotfl:

The rest you can get at artcyclopedia.com, specifically on the Gothic page:

artcyclopedia.com/history/gothic.html

This page will give you links to images. Most of them are way too large to post here. Or too dark because the pigments have deteriorated with time. You can also find a lot of reading material on this page.

This is the Gothic age just before the Renaissance. There was a Gothic revival around the time of the Romantics and then another one in the 20th Century. Rice pulled her material from these previous ages as well as from other sources.

So lots to look at here and lots to read. However, since you have said that this is ‘personal’ a really good idea is to find a spiritual director. You can start with your priest and ask him if he knows someone sensitive to this issue.
 
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its just really complex. like when i converted to catholicism, i was on this forum, and they asked, whos your fave catholic writer, and i said Anne Rice, because she is Catholic and a writer, but most of the people replied and said, no she’s not catholic because she condones all this stuff etc. the thing is, she is a big part of why i became catholic, because i grew up reading her and she writes a lot about catholicism. i just don’t know how that can be true and yet once i become catholic i have to reject her because of soem of the stuff she writes about?
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Isn’t this the Anne Rice who writes stories about Vampires? I don’t really read fiction, so I’m not very claer about writers, but I don’t see how make believe worlds can be constued as anti-Catholic writing. Some people like that Lord of the Ring stuff (whcih I like dwhen I was about 11) and say it has Catholic undertones because of the good versus evil.

People can find postive messages any where, it seems, and I suppose there is nothing wrong in that. Not that I am the limbo stick on what is wrong or right, but I would think that the concern would be when you find yourself attracted to sins or their glorification as portrayed in anything. Evil can appear beautiful and attractive too; it it didn’t people would be far less susceptible to sin. Part of the reason I have so little interest in reading fiction is that the world if full of real lives that have been role models of great heroics, and horrible, horrible villains, that we need to address because they jeopardize life or be on the guard to make sure their mistakes aren’t perpetuated again.

When you titled this aethetics, I thought you mean about physical beauty for some reason. The way something appeared. Guess it was my simple mind.
 
Ani, you have WAY too much time on your hands. The Curmudgeon Club needs a good cleaning, and since you ARE in fact the Chef’s Stewards third string apprentice, I nominate you. Now git!
 
thanks for all the replies, i guess its hard to explain quite what i mean heh. but i appreciate all the replies and help.
 
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