tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post3611865012476926753..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Chopin - the worksDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-14751424712215964972010-01-04T18:07:01.618+00:002010-01-04T18:07:01.618+00:00There, I'm afraid, Catherine, you're empha...There, I'm afraid, Catherine, you're emphatically wrong, as you would have realised if you'd been to the exhibition. There are three full-length polychrome statues in Room Two; the others are of St Bruno and Saint Ignatius Loyola.<br /><br />This, I can assure you, is St Francis Borgia, beatified in 1624. Cano's portrait is placed alongside what I felt to be the most lifelike and pleading of all the statues.<br /><br />A little humility, sister?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-39390236085262851872010-01-04T16:38:27.432+00:002010-01-04T16:38:27.432+00:00from Catherine Nixon
Dear David, a very Happy New ...from Catherine Nixon<br />Dear David, a very Happy New year to you.<br />The polychrome statue in your last but one blog is that of the Jesuit priest St Francis Xavier, not Borgia. He was a co-founder, with Ignatius de Loyola, of the Society of Jesus, and like him was of Basque nobility, of the Navarre. Jesuit churches throughout the world always have statues of these two saints, with Ignatius holding the Bible, and Francis Xavier holding a cross. The statue of St Ignatius is always to the left of the altar, with St Francis Xavier to the right, as you come into the Church.<br />I am surprised David Damant didn't beat me to this emendation.<br />Catherine Nixon, Clare College, Cambridge.Catherine Nixonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-51890777847495466612010-01-03T12:41:05.903+00:002010-01-03T12:41:05.903+00:00Happy New Year! I also love that mazurka, thanks f...Happy New Year! I also love that mazurka, thanks for those contrasting performances.Frances Allardnoreply@blogger.com