Sunday, October 04, 2020
A Howler
Paul Robertson, Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey through Life and Death (London: Faber & Faber, 2016), p. 164:
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We may call this ESP, or prayer, or love, or the Divine, or the space between the notes — or whatever else we will. Leonardo's miraculous Sistine Chapel depiction of God creating Adam captures exactly this profound and beautiful mystery.Hat tip: Eric Thomson, who remarks, "Leonardo would scowl, and Michelangelo grimace, at the misattribution. So much for publishers' readers."
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