Re: horns

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Judith R Cohen" <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:50 AM
Subject: horns


> And to all those stories, I can add "Jews with tails" folklore from
> Spain...
> but no one actually answered Josh's question, which in light of your
> various anecdotes and observations, is even more interesting. Josh asked
> soemthing like, "does that invalidate the painting as a work of art?"
>
>  does it? I suppose that opens the inevitable "what is a work of
> art",and Wagner, and all the rest,  so maybe I shouldn't ask. Too
> late...there goes the send button -
>

My name ain't Guiliani, and I don't pretend to decide what is art.  I can
only write about how it would affect me.  I could still see the skills of
the artist, and I would try to "read" the painting in terms of the views of
the time, especially the views of the ones who commissioned the paintings.
When I was in Florence and Venice last year and visited several museums, I
viewed the paintings (mostly religious in nature) that way.  As a
20th-century Jew, I certainly couldn't see the paintings as would an Italian
of the time when it was painted.

B.t.w., did you know that there is a Church of Saint Moses in Venice?


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