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J. Alexander's avatar

Rod My Brother,

I just took my kids to the Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco.

https://www.famsf.org/visit/legion-of-honor

What an amazing place this was. We only had an hour so only had time for the main floor but what a delight. It was my 15 year old daughter, my 13 year old son, my 10 year old daughter and me. I took pictures of almost all the paintings there which ranged from the 14th century (late middle ages) to the early 20th Century. Most of the paintings (all European) had a very religious (Christian) background. It was amazing to see how art progressed over 600 years. I could hear Blessed Father Seraphim's words about how you could see the gap between Orthodoxy and the West grow in it's art from the 13th century on. It's true. You can see it, but you can also see through art how spiritual the human soul truly is. I need to read Dante. You can see the progression of Western Art go from primarily religious (Medieval times) to humanist (Renaissance times) to secular and realist and now it's returning to spiritual (but demonic). You can absolutely see the soul of Western Man in the art.

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MichaelT's avatar

This country we now live in is a very long, Jerry Springer show.

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