{"id":6768,"date":"2017-02-06T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:43:31","slug":"monday-is-for-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6768","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY IS FOR MORTALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(I once was what you are and what I am you also will be). This memento mori<\/a><\/i> underlines that the painting was intended to serve as a lesson to the viewers. At the simplest level the imagery must have suggested to the 15th-century faithful that, since they all would die, only their faith in the Trinity and Christ’s sacrifice would allow them to overcome their transitory existences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to American art historian Mary McCarthy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fresco, with its terrible logic, is like a proof in philosophy or mathematics, God the Father, with His unrelenting eyes, being the axiom from which everything else irrevocably flows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: McCarthy, Mary (August 22, 1959). “A City of Stone”<\/a>. The New Yorker<\/i>. New York: 48.<\/span><\/cite><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Wikepedia: (I once was what you are and what I am you also will be). This memento mori underlines that the painting was intended to serve as a lesson to the viewers. At the simplest level the imagery must have suggested to the 15th-century faithful that, since they all would die, only their faith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29,56,43,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-ambition","category-art","category-christianity","category-death"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}