Genesis 1:1... «in the
beginning, God...» John 3:16... «For God so loved... «I'm
Blind, but now I see...» your personal experience confirms nothing... the
patients on the psych unit of my hospital are filled with some amazing claims... just as the Muslim, the Jew, the Buddhist, the Rastafarian make claims of their experience...
Among the sights are Old Masterworks from all times and places — there are allusive ties to works as different as Flemish proverb pictures (most notably, Bruegel's ironical The Parable of the
Blind, 1568), Gericault's unromantic portraits of mental
patients, and Sargeant's peculiarly lurid romantic paintings — none the worse for wear, and as unconsciously striking as ever, but more adult, that is, dignified by consciousness, than the Abstract Expressionism with which Desiderio
began his career, and thus less beholden to the tyranny of modernism, if still symptomatic of modernity.