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America has been through viciously divisive periods before far worse than what we live through today with the hindsight of history we can see that as the Inflection Point between an old system that is broken down and a new one sorry at the Inflection Point . Absolutely right in the middle of it the best example is that in 2016 with the republican primary there was a real civil war and the Republican Party the establishment representatives like jeb bush and others didnt get the nomination or the support of the American People it was donald trump the democrats are going to the same thing right now they are having a civil war in their party is it going to be a traditional democrat or the outsider or socialist and then to govern the people but after a long period of thoughtfulness to go through the divisive periods we are a dynamic country geographically economically we are costly reinventing ourselves as individuals and as a nation and government by our very nature and then they get stuck
Byzantine art spans 1,000 years. It begins from the 4th century a. D. And all the way into the 15th century a. D. It is a very significant period to the development of western art. It affects substantially the art production of the periods of western medieval art, for example, the carolingian, the romanesque, gothic and also the early renaissance periods. Unfortunately, these very important thousand years of Artistic Development is almost entirely omitted from the telelesson or from the telecourse art of the western world. For this reason, i have brought you here to the holy trinity church. We are very fortunate here in San Francisco to have such a lovely monument which reflects the byzantine art tradition. The decorative program which you will see, the lovely images that you will see in this church, belonged to the middle byzantine phase. I need to clarify, the byzantine period is divided into three periods the early, middle and the later phase. And its the middle phase lasting from a
choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bear a son. Narrator along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. . You shall call his name jesus. narrator that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers. . And be called the son of the most high. narrator and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. The gospel according to st. Luke. Narrator so began the building of a religion. In the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. Tonight, how that story was t