bustakay:artistic-depictions:Agnus Dei, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1635-40, oil on canvasIn our day, wit
bustakay:artistic-depictions:Agnus Dei, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1635-40, oil on canvasIn our day, with the custom of sacrifice in full decline, the meaning of the word, tothe extent that it still expresses a drive revealed by an inner experience, is still asclosely linked as possible to the notion of a spirit of sacrifice of which the selfmutilationof madmen is only the most absurd and terrible example.- Georges Bataille, ‘Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh’. -- source link
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