Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Maple
Arce
Peralta
Tantalus
Apprehend
Grasp
Holding
Canada
Carpenter (San José)

2Tim.3:7
 "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race."~~~John Ruskin:St. Mark's rest; the history of Venice

The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel

“man burst forth with a plurality of tools and art”~~~Edmund Carpenter

Canada, maple leaf

“shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded”~~~Gilbert Highet

'Lay on, Macduff
And damn'd be him that first cries,"Hold, enough!"
~~~SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth,V, viii

Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de la Tour
 Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

 

Tantalus

“The plum survives its poems”~~~Wallace Stevens

 Bellini, Madonna of the Pear (c.1485) Bergamo, Galleria dell'Accademia Carrara

Chess: "Michelangelo" "Maple" "Peralta" "Tantalus " "Apprehend" "Grasp" "Holding" "Canada" "Arce" "Carpenter" "Joseph"