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…got color by Herbert. I got the Herbert thing. I got Milton, not Sloan. I got Shakespeare's icicles, and I got the Caravaggio. No. George, find... What are some of the paintings that would correspond to the iconic forms of... Well, any medieval thing. I…
…anyone who has the book handy. They can look at the poem and look at the painting in the book. Well, we've got something. Caravaggio is one. Well, I've got De La Tour, too. De La Tour and Caravaggio. That'll do for a Baroque. Yeah. Yeah. Then we'll…
…the painting in the book. Well, we've got something. Caravaggio is one. Well, I've got De La Tour, too. De La Tour and Caravaggio. That'll do for a Baroque. Yeah. Yeah. Then we'll put in... We have this... We have... We don't have the John Donne, right?…
…Maloney. Maloney. Exactly. Put it aside. Don't get it mixed in for the moment. We have, as you say, De La Tour and Caravaggio. Yeah, we have. What we will put with them. We have Shakespeare's Lear, too. That goes with Rembrandt, though. Have we got a…
…Is there a Rembrandt in your sequence? No. We must have a Rembrandt. Well, then skip it. We'll stick with Delatour and Caravaggio. And don't you have another Baroque painter? Oh, surely we can find one. You've got painting slides there, haven't you? Surely…
…Oh, surely we can find one. You've got painting slides there, haven't you? Surely there's a Rubens in there. Well, we have a Caravaggio, of course. Well, let's work on that one. We will use, then... I would just talk to these. I think this is enough.…
…know exactly who painted it. Let's carefully put that with icicles. It's Shakespeare. All right. Those two go together. All right. Then Caravaggio will go with what? I guess it'll go with the... It could go with Marvell, but at my back? Yeah. I don't…
…I struck the board. Yes. I don't think we need to put it on. I can refer to it. Okay. And then I have the Caravaggio, I have the Latour, and I have... And look, what we can do, while I am talking about, occasionally about verses, you can get the…
…So if you'd like to project any of these. Yeah, we need a picture, too. Let's decide right now. All right. We haven't done Caravaggio. We haven't done the Burl. Let's do the Burl. All right. Where are the penis, Joe? Let me just put this. I like your…
…That's where he got Alice in Wonderland from. Without intending to. Jefferson Aeroflame, Alice when she's ten feet tall. Did you find Caravaggio? Yeah, yeah. Ah, now let's see. What would be... I've got here four slides. Do we have any iconic? Anything to…
…which he is so startled he falls off his horse. That's the story. And incidentally, a painting of this period, this is Caravaggio, 15th century. He was the first painter to really explore the whole business of... Show business. He was pure show business.…
…really explore the whole business of... Show business. He was pure show business. Of course. He has an interesting story about Caravaggio, just in passing, that he used to get commissions from various churches, to paint murals or paint paintings and he…