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...known of Hieronymus Bosch beyond the facts that he lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605 a Spanish monk wrote that "Bosch alone has the courage to depict the inner and the essential . . . His paintings are not farces but like books of great wisdom." Today Bosch is called the "father of surrealism" and admired chiefly as a convincing fantasist...
...black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin, he fixes his dark eyes on his visitor, brightening with interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination...
...Brothers. The more thoughtful members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy still had open and even somewhat divided minds on the subject, and the Copernicus-Galileo theory might have prevailed if disgruntled scholars and disputatious monks had not begun a muttering campaign against Galileo which forced the issue prematurely. Yet Galileo was held in such esteem that when a Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty...
...Christendom. Even after the Middle Ages monasteries continued to dominate religious life, provided much of the fire of reform within the Catholic Church. But with the 18th century the monastery was relegated to a dark corner. More devastating than the French Revolution's "freeing" of nuns and monks from their vows-more deadly than the guillotine that executed Carmelites and others who did not want to be freed-were the widespread notions that the monastic life was unnatural, unhealthy, a "waste." Today that view is drastically changing: the monastery has begun to recapture the world's imagination...
...extraordinary beauty. Lime Woollen, Kohn understands how to emphasize a world without a shout from the singers or an unnecessary consonance. The percussive piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem is a half-bitter smile and shrug...