Bettina H. Schwarz

violinist

In the Face of God - Just a Contemplation

The dome of the Sistine Chapel in 'eternal Rome' houses, in a brightly colored garment, the image of a woman with blond curls: the Delphic Sibyl by Michelangelo Buonarroti is a legendary herald of the expectation of God, a prophetess or seer.
Michelangelo saw himself as an artist who could not conceive of anything that was not contained within the marble - a hand entirely obedient to the spirit, willing to achieve the image in the stone.
A form representing divine creation, not an act of doing something, but the silent posture of something sublime to the eye. Enveloped in stone, this apparition—though present—withdraws from its external surroundings without the artist. A seer with a scroll, to proclaim a secret, in the presence of God, her gaze averted—a voice that perhaps speaks of the existence of God, releasing the viewer to interpret it as he sees fit—like the cosmos of an unknown harmony between nature and the divine, a harmony in the Mozartian sense, "the music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them" (W.A. Mozart)—the fine arts in the face of human nature.
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