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This is the painting of a friend of mine whom I haven't talked to for a long time, and I honestly don't know what is going on with his life. The man with the wound is a former communist dictator, while the man touching his wound is the painter's father. It is a tribute to the work of Caravaggio called "Touching Jesus." He chose the dictator to illustrate that tyrants have taken the place of God, and above all, this dictator, whose name I don't want to mention, created the first atheist state in the world. #Nostr #art

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β€ π™ˆπ™–π™§π™žπ™– 1y ago

Immediately recognized the Caravaggio inspo!!

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Kim 1y ago

The original

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β€ π™ˆπ™–π™§π™žπ™– 1y ago

Yeah! That’s exactly what popped into my head! I like this painting and Saint Thomas in general! I really like the apocryphal gospel of Saint Thomas and I was just talking about this part of it earlier w someone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_empty_jar?wprov=sfti1#

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Kim 1y ago

The interpretation is correct: the pleasure of possession is a lie; the greatest pleasure is mental and spiritual.

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β€ π™ˆπ™–π™§π™žπ™– 1y ago

AMEN!

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