3 août 2020
Sébastien Wit, « B. Baert : "Kairos: The Right Moment or Occasion" (www.ias.edu) », ALEA, ID : 10670/1.n4pabm
Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at the KU Leuven. Franz Werfel (1890–1945) ends his novella Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand with the protagonist Leonidas dozing off: "While sleeping under the oppressive dome of the ever-louder music, Leonidas knew with inexpressible clarity that today an offer of salvation had been made to him—dark, muted, vague, like all such offers. He knew that he had missed it. He knew that such an offer would not be made again." Th...