... be the first painting to define true linear perspective, Masaccio created the illusion of a chapel with a vaulted ceiling, for his patrons the Lenzi family, along the west side wall of Santa Maria Novella. Research suggests that Brunelleschi may have designed or collaborated with Masaccio but there is no documented evidence to prove this. Giorgio Vasari described the fresco. "The most ... ...

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... Stephen King's current hit horror novels, "Desperation and The Regulators", are steeped in gnostic themes and terminology. What has made gnosticism spring up in both Stephen King novels and Rancho Santa Fe? Harold Bloom argues that gnosticism is the "American religion." He suggests that gnosticism's studied, measured, retreat from worldly matters and its adoration of the individual soul can be seen ... ...

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