Until We Have Faces The theme of this evening was inspired by the novel “Until We Have Faces” written by CS Lewis. It is the retelling of the Greek myth, Psyche and Cupid. The timeless tale of two mortal princesses one beautiful and one ugly; Lewis reworks the classic myth into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. The story itself is powerful, as he portrays in a single tale a lifetime of revelation. In the same way that Jesus used the parable to symbolize principles of the Kingdom, Lewis has crafted a story which resonates the Gospel, Christ, and the redemption of all mankind.
Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi was born on May 15, 1567, in Cremona Italy, Monteverdi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the Early Baroque, and is known as the first great composer of the operas. Monteverdi is often view as a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a similar pattern in that is continuous that is often viewed through his work in both styles. Monteverdi often was known as a dramatic composer, while bringing a tremendous meaning from the text he set that often turned each of his pieces into a believable musical and also produced a dramatic statement. It was an early age when Monteverdi’s career began, he then published his first pieces, and this was based on as a collection of three-voice motets, at the age of fifteen. It was by 1591, when he went to Mantua as a musician for the Gonzaga court, by then he had already published books of “spiritual madrigals” in 1583, then another canzonettas in 1584, by 1587 and 1590 he published his first two books of “madrigals.” It was in Mantua he continued writing madrigals, and then in 1607 he produced his first work in the new genre of opera, the setting was of Orfeo.
Entwistle would like his readers to mediate on what appears to be a conflict between psychology and Christianity dating back to 1543 when Nicholaus Copernicus published “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” referring to the theory heliocentric and 1612 when Galileo revisited the heliocentric theory before being barred in 1616 of his teachings. Christianity and psychology are interconnected although they share the same ideologies linking them together but at the same time demising their views. The connection between psychology and theology comes from worldviews in which one sees the world and how the world around us began. “The integration of psychology and the theology is virtually inevitable due to their mutual interest in understanding the ambiguities and mysteries of human behavior, and healing human brokenness ”(Entwistle, 2010, p. 51). Everyone has a worldview that we have
Virgil(Publius Vergilius Maro) wrote the Aeneid between 1-0 BCE in Rome, what is believed to be northern Italy or Greece. The main purpose of this epic poem was to act as a propaganda for the Roman Empire and to show the divinity of the lineage of Octavius(Augustus) who was supposedly Virgil’s contemporary. The Aeneid owes a lot of its content to the Odyssey and shows many differences as well, mainly because of the different motivations of both characters. Aeneas is the subject of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid. Dr. Gwilym Jones divides Virgil’s work into what he calls the Odysseic and Iliadic halves.
"1Early on, Florence was the major center of humanism. Francesco Petrarch (b. 1304) and Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313), two of the most important humanists, were born in Florence and influenced the progressive thinking in that city. BERNARDO DADDI Second only to Giotto, Bernardo Daddi was among the leading painters active in Florence during the first half of the 14th century.
apocalupsis = disclosure, discovery, revelation) is a genre akin to the prophetic, not to be confused though with this genre. Apocalyptic genre developed in the intertestamental period and represents a literature of spiritual and political crisis written in times of trial, which is expressed in a straightforward and symbolically encoded language, the hope that God will judge the world and will do justice to faithful people. The apocryphal apocalyptic literature (today unrecognized as religious writing between the canonical), illustrated with lots of writings both Jewish and Christian, presents certain characteristics. They all cultivate aliases, fiction, approximation and exaggeration and show a particular preference for expressing ideas using symbols, signs and visions. But while all uncanonical apocalyptic writings manifest a state of mind of crippling despair regarding the present torments and a total distrust in the success of human efforts to scarce the evil on earth, The Revelation of Saint John the Evangelist is the most robust expression of religious optimism.
Spanish poetry was heavily influenced by Spanish and Portuguese poets; one masterpiece that came out of this time was Luis de Camões’ epic, Os Lusíadas. “There were two main poetic schools after the mid-1500s-the Castilian school of Salamanca and the Andalusian school of Seville. Poets of both schools wrote in the style of the Italian poet Petrarch (Encyclopedia 759).” During the 1500s there were poets called mystics who sought a union of the heart with God and a well known one was Saint John. Saint Teresa of Avila was an author who wrote mystical literature, and two similar writers are Fray Luis de Grenada and Fray Luis de León. The picaresque novel became more and more popular with many people writing these novels.
Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death, and which has long been the best known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter. Leonardo's assistant Salaì, at his death in 1525, owned a portrait which in his personal papers was named la Gioconda, a painting bequeathed to him by Leonardo. That Leonardo painted such a work, and its date, were confirmed in 2005 when a scholar at Heidelberg University discovered a marginal note in a 1477 printing of a volume written by the ancient Roman philosopher Cicero. The note is dated October 1503 and was written by Leonardo's contemporary Agostino Vespucci. This note likens Leonardo to renowned Greek painter Apelles, who is mentioned in the text, and states that Leonardo was at that time working on a painting of Lisa del Giocondo.
Duke Rovere hired Venice's famous painter Titian to paint a masterpiece of rich color with oil called Venus of Urbino (1538). Today, when we hear of Venetian color, we think Titian. In Rome, Pope Julius II was very busy. He hired Donato Bramante in 1503 to redo the Vatican and make a new Saint Peter's Basilica. Bramante was inspired by Da Vinci's work with the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.
Dante Alighieri has influenced countless authors since the initial distribution of his Commedia over 700 years ago. Shadows of his works can be seen in authors from Chaucer to Salman Rushdie. Perhaps the most striking, yet unproven, influence can be seen in the medieval poem Pearl. Pearl and Purgatorio Cantos 28-32 are nearly identical in every way: form, function, plot, and characters. All of these parallels present together signal that a sheer coincidence is unlikely.