but I seem to recall it was this one by Caravaggio that was in the big Catholic family Bible that I grew up with. I don't know who in my family got it, maybe I'll try to find out and see if my memory is correct. I must have been about four when my older brother showed it to me. I remember it was something I looked at pretty much every time I looked at that huge old red-leather covered volume. That and the list of dates when our family members had received the Sacraments administered, especially "Extreme Unction" which, back in those pre-Vatican II days was like getting a death sentence, always gave me the chills. Things got a lot less morbid after Vatican II. I have to say, the Catholic baroque style always kind of repelled me after that.
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
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