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The Importance of Beauty
I've often thought that famous photograph by Robert Capra, the Spanish revolutionary crystallizing that moment of death is the awesomeness of beauty. When I came upon Benini's Apollo and Daphne or Donatello's Mary Magdalene, I saw it through a different prism because both are dealing with very difficult subjects. Even today just the thought of those sculptures and of course seeing it with my 21-22 year old son where he saw that for the first time,. He couldn't remember the last time we were in Vérez-Zé. That blew me away but the other aspect of that if you may say it's a little bit more metaphorical is to
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