A Catholic Mom in Hawaii has tagged me for a book meme of sorts. The rules are simple:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
From the chapter, "The Appartamento Borgia," in The Vatican: Its History - Its Treasures:
"Several things in this fresco ["The Disputa of St. Catherine" in the Hall of the Saints in the Borgia appartment of the Vatican] have engaged the attentino of historians and art critics. In the first place, we must say that Vasari's observation on th artistic impropriety of the reliefs introduced by Pinturicchio, even more in this picture than in the neighboring ones, seems to be just. "Having made in the said halls," he says, "a history of St. Catherine, he represents the arches of Rome in relief and depicts the figures in such a manner that, while the figures stand in front and the buildings behind, those things which are diminished in size come more forward than those which, according to the eye, are increased in size - a very great heresy in our art."
I tag:
Thom of Ad Dominum,
Sr. Mary Martha of Ask Sr. Mary Martha,
Ellen From Across the Net,
Andrew, at Unam Sanctam, and
the Hibblers.
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