And as to why I am reading Panofsky for fun, I cannot say

[sienamystic]

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"Thus confronted, for the first time since the downfall of the Roman Empire, with the problem of monumentality, the Romanesque artists approached the classical past from a point of view quite different from that of their predecessors.

Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, 1972

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

AWWW PANOFSKY. //drowns in nostalgia

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa...flashback! Yay Romanesque!

~Kate-h

here goes

[(Anonymous)]

OK, from Ten Theories of Human Nature, pg 56, sentence 5

"Perhaps the thought is that there is a primeval stage of innocence, before moral distinctions are understood--and maybe also in early human evolution."

Cherbear

Re: here goes

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

And I'm totally not surprised that that's the kind of book you have near you *g*

*grin*

[(Anonymous)]

I was writing my syllabus for Conf 601 ;)

Cher