Image: A Classical sculpture in Florence “It is beautiful; it has no meaning,” the French Nobel laureate André Gide remarked on Aristide Malliol’s sculpture The Mediterranean when it was shown at the Salon d’Automne in 1905. Gide’s remark, like many of his remarks, aims for simplicity while skirting paradox. Even though that quote unfortunately does not … Continue reading THE PRISM OF BEAUTY: Ancient Greeks and the Gods