Aesthetics of love & death

March 4th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

while Hans Holbein invites us to contemplate death behind the varied appearances of human life:

Holbein Dance the Nun

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  1. Scott:

    March 5th, 2016 at 3:23 am

    Thanks for introducing me to Faber, Charles – I hadn’t heard of him before (I come from the Protestant tradition and only recently have been exploring the Catholic) and I shall be doing some reading!

  2. Charles Cameron:

    March 5th, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    I only ran across him while researching this post, Scott : )
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    Which reminds me, I want to reread Evelyn Waugh’s fine book on the Jesuit & martyr Edmund Campion.

  3. Charles Cameron:

    March 5th, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    I trust Grurray won’t mind my reposting his tweet here: