Sheltered by this gilded shrine was an alabaster chest set upon a sledge; the same guardian goddesses are shown in shallow relief at its four corners in similar attitudes." (id.) in a description of a relief: "The goddess Isis on one of the double doors of the gilt shrine, reminiscent...
this revelatory capacity provides us with evidence for the existence of the Good, a metaphor for a transcendent reality of which God was also a symbol; art is a “hall of reflection” in which “everything under the sun can be examined and considered”; art provides us with an analogue fo...