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Mahonri Moriancumer wrote a new post, Should Christ look like a tennis player...

” . . . All the Christs here are copied from Thorvaldsen’s [Christus] and look like Björn Borg.” That was the conclusion of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, after visiting Salt Lake City. (See:...

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Mahonri Moriancumer commented on the post, Should Christ look like a tennis...

I don’t know if there is anything wrong with artists painting their own time and culture. Seriously. It’s not just true of Mormons, it’s also true of Old Masters. Christs by Titian look like...

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Mahonri Moriancumer commented on the post, Should Christ look like a tennis...

This reminds me of Vasari’s comment that if you copy the hand of a Greco-Roman sculpture over and over again, you will eventually arrive at the perfect hand. That is perhaps the most succinct...

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