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Article: Jan van Eyck: to be a pilgrim.
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- Catholic Insight
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- September 1, 1998
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While the significance of our Catholic artistic heritage can often escape us in the modern world, beauty and art is integral to our humanity, as pointed out by Jean Cardinal Danielou in his book, Prayer as a Political Problem. He writes: "The world of beauty is the world of intermediary hierarchies which are irradiated with the glory that cascades down from the Trinity even into the formless opacity of matter. The beautiful is the world of forms between that which is above form, being the sphere of God, and that which has no form at all, being mere matter. The modern world shuts out that intermediate order. It recognizes nothing between scientific thinking and mystical ...
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... ... the head. In the foreground of Jan van Eyck's The Virgin and Child with Saints ... unsurpassed. Van Eyck started it and Van Eyck finished it. And then everyone ... t want a piece of this action? Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and ...
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