
How Does Art Imitate Nature? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Death Bed
The house has always been a place for praying and offering thanks to God. Even in non-Christian context Chinese temples with a vault of heaven are intimations of the third nature. In this kind of painting it can often be indicated by the transitorious of life but I think Jilzong is actually right. What is depicted here is the silent act of existence itself. It shows beings in their being the capital B as participating in that being which constitutes the ultimate horizon of all things of all reality.
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