[339] our daily life. Now I hope you all had this experience. When you came from a gallery and were under the strong impression of a great artist^a, now you saw, with his eyes, the ordinary nature... in the woods, and in the faces of men. This has happened to me very often, and not only with visual arts by but also with novels, etc: reality is opened. And now if it is opened, we can see this reality ALSO with the eyes of the artist in our ordinary world, i.e. we do the same thing then WITHOUT painting it--but we SEE it also. And that is one of the great things of the education by art^b, that even in the ordinary life the vision of the artist comes out.

QN: Is it essentially the artist^c who teaches us to see these things? PT: Yes. I think that the history of art has educated the eyes of mankind in all ALL periods of history^d, and in all countries. 13) A Roman painting of the Hellenistic period--I come to the portrait, another group of the naturalistic^e. 14) Another Roman painting from Pompeii--This shows how old, naturalism is, and it is not only an invention of the Renaissance^f; and how old, portraits are which tried to be as near to life as possible. 15) Roman painting, 3rd century-- 16) Greek painting, Hellenistic period-- 17) Portrait, by Bronzino^g--We come to the Renaissance^h, not only because it is a beautiful picture but also because I want to say something about it, about this whole realm. This whole realm of the portrait is a very interesting one. For me this has much to do with the Christian doctrine of the resurrectionⁱ of the body^j, which of course I understand symbolically, but as a true symbol^k. And the symbol is true because man is a whole, and, as a whole, the bodily existence participates