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From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: St Jerome, Geoffrey Hill and Antonello Da Messina
> St. Jerome, who may or may not be responsible for the Latin Bible,
> certifiably (and the term is unusually appropriate) wrote a number of
> lengthy letters to a young woman whose name escapes me who had decided to
> set up a proto-nunnery and asked the saint to help her develop a Rule. His
> advice on the subject of the effect of women on men brightened long hours
> in the lower circles of the Johns Hopkins library. Men are turned on by
> cleanliness in a woman, he said, so bathing should be severely limited.
> Hair is also a turn-on, so best to shave it off or cover it, and certainly
> never wash it. Ears also get to men--cover or amputate. Note that the
> traditional habits of most orders meet Jerome's criteria.
>
> The idea seems to be that anything about a woman gets at least to St.
> Jerome. It never occurred to him that he needed to get laid.
>
> Starting with what one would have thought unpromising materials
Chritianity
> has produced marvels.
>
>
> At 03:01 AM 10/20/1999 +0100, you wrote:
> >St Jerome, Geoffrey Hill and Antonello da Messina
> >
> >Here is a the location on the web
> >http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/a/antonell/stjerome.html
> >
> >containing the famous and spectacular painting of Saint Jerome in his
study,
> >by the Italian painter Antonello Da Messina (1474).
> > It is, to me, the most striking work of art ever made to portray a
Saint.
> >What it is fascinating is the perfection of the compositional geometry
and
> >perspective
> >of St Jerome's study as well the vividness and naturalness of the
background
> >rolling smoothly in the far distance......
> >(St Jerome in his study is the title: Geoffrey Hill's sonnet "Ten years
> >without you?for so it happens..."
> >refers to this particular posture of St Jerome, the intellectual Saint.
> >Antonello da Messina's painting of St Jerome is a masterpiece of
virtuosism
> >for the meticulousity of the study central area
> >(a meticolosity which in the fisrt place eblonged to Saint Jerome
himself,
> >as stressed in his poem by Geoffre Hill.
> >
> >I hope you can enjoy this amazing work of art.
> >
> >Erminia
> >
> >
>
>
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