St. Francis of Assisi (1181/2 -1226)
St. Francis; date unknown; Edward Warwick; American (1881 – 1973); woodcut; Woodmere Art Musuem, Philadelphia
And my view is that we are fortunate to know this luminous artistic tradition and that other tradition which originated in the West – Les Lumieres – equally luminous which has allowed us, beyond the reach of any orthodoxy, to choose what we believe and how we will try to live.