Is there any reason to divorce Bernini from what I was taught (back when)
was a very theatrical age. (Just look at the Sun King's morning Levee.)
Our ideas of privacy & decorum are Victorian, not Baroque.
Tom Izbicki
At 06:41 PM 3/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 03/29/2000 5:55:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
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><< but Bernini encourages us to give ourselves over to the intimacy and,
>conceivably, to come to share in it. >>
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>So does "Slim Shady" and his "Porn Emporium" down the road. Just because
>Bernini is more talented doesn't mean we should look at it differently.
>
>mark
>
>PS Maybe I should add, lest someone think I am overly prudish with Bernini's
>work, that erotica doesn't bother me. It being in a church does.
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