Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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John Donne, the 17th Century cleric who wrote these words, was a great enough poet to rise to the loftiest challenge any Christian artist can face: the translation of faith into the medium of art. Before Donne's day, such painters as Giotto, Raphael, Bellini and Leonardo met the same challenge on the same high plane. Bach and Handel, a little later, met it with their music...