According to legend, the very moment he died St. Jerome, Augustine saw his soul ascending to heaven:
This work, painted by Vittore Carpaccio at the beginning of the sixteenth century , Augustine portrays precisely the moment when looking at the apotheosis of Jerome.
the left of the painting, in a significant loneliness, a dog looks up.
But toward what? From what has caught his eye? It may be that face like that when pointing at the moon, look at the finger. The look of the dog pen to the point then that Augustine left suspended in midair in that moment of astonishment.
Or it could, himself, looking out the window, where the painting alludes to it without being able to display. That is, the soul of Jerome, invisible to us but not to Augustine and, it seems to suggest Carpaccio, even his dog.
I have this wonderful interpretive hypothesis to listening to a conference Elio Franzini, I Castiglioncello witnessed a few weeks ago.
But what has this to do with the music and in this case with the caress of the Pope, I hope will become clearer in future posts.
(Simon)
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