Three cheers and a cupcake for the individual who can tell me the artist who created this lovely altarpiece. (I'm not teasing--I forgot.) And is that God the Father pictured there, or Christ?
I had never realized until a few years ago that God the Father has been pictured in Western art. I had thought that was a no-no (make no graven image and all that); and it is, more or less, but it has been done. He is almost always pictured, as far as I can tell, as an old man with a beard--surprise, surprise.
How would God be pictured today? Perhaps as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime. Donald Trump with good hair. Rush Limbaugh at a weight within his category on the weight-height chart. Donald Rumsfeld if the Iraq war had gone as he imagined it would have. The Supernanny. The latest American Idol (God as Boredom personified).
This is getting silly. But it is a new day, and a worthy day for looking at a beautiful picture.
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