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"

Goal

Goal
Tantalus
Ivory
Virgin and Child

Col.1:5
"For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"

 Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle

The Myth of Tantalus 

King Tantalus was once invited to share the table with the Gods on Olympus, a rare honor. In his hubris he decided to test the omniscience of the Gods by cooking one of his sons, Pelops, and serving them his remains at a feast. The Gods were not fooled. Most recoiled in revulsion at the macabre dish presented to them, all save Demeter, who was distraught by the loss of his daughter, Persephone. Unaware Demeter indulged in the gruesome cuisine and consumed Pelops' shoulder. Pelops was restored to life and made whole, Hephaestus forged him a new shoulder made of ivory donated by Demeter. For his abominable crime and gross insult to the Gods, Tantalus was banished to the underworld for eternity. There he was bound in a pool of water and under a peach tree. When he reached down to get a drink, the water receded just out of his reach. When he reached up to grab a peach, the branches lifted away dooming Tantalus to an eternity of thirst and hunger with no reprieve. And thus, we get the term "Tantalize."

Goal

Chess:  "Goal" "Tantalus" "Ivory" "Virgin and Child"

 The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made",^[1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.