Word: botticelli
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...glorified religion. The metamorphosis of the gods, as Malraux describes it, was a little like the story of the Ten Little Indians. First they were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian...
...Last week, when resorts in less invigorating climes were already shuttering up, Blackpool began the biggest six weeks of its season, a grand finale known as the "Street Illuminations," when the city's thoroughfares are a carnival of flamboyant tableaux, ranging this year from a lurid facsimile of Botticelli's Birth oj Venus to a cancan...