The eye listens

Paul Claudel (1868 1955), a classic of French literature of the twentieth century, which combined literary activity with diplomatic career. In the collection of the art of the essay Claudel reflects on the paintings of Rembrandt, Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Titian. The author proposes not just to look at works of art, seeing only the upper layers of their values, and would like to hear them, to penetrate their deeper meaning, often unexpected and even mystical, and reports that a painting or tapestry, or stained glass sculpture of their mysterious attractive force. Painting, architecture, music, poetry and even a example of all these different, but closely related expressions of the human spirit...