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On the afternoon of Easter Day I heard Vespers at the Lateran：
music quite lovely。 At the close； a Bishop in red； and with red
glovessuch as Pater talks of in Gaston de Latourcame out on the
balcony and showed us the Relics。 He was swarthy； and wore a yellow
mitre。 A sinister mediaeval man； but superbly Gothic； just like the
bishops carved on stalls or on portals： and when one thinks that
once people mocked at stained…glass attitudes！ they are the only
attitudes for the clothes。 The sight of the Bishop； whom I watched
with fascination； filled me with the great sense of the realism of
Gothic art。 Neither in Greek art nor in Gothic art is there any
pose。 Posing was invented by bad portrait…painters； and the first
person who posed was a stock…broker； and he has gone on posing ever
since。
I send you a photograph I took on Palm Sunday at Palermo。 Do send
me some of yours； and love me always； and try to read this letter。
Kindest regards to your dear mother。
Always；
OSCAR。
… Letter to Robert Ross。
Footnotes：
｛1｝ 〃The Influence of Pater and Matthew Arnold in the Prose…
Writings of Oscar Wilde；〃 by Ernst Bendz。 London： H。 Grevel & Co。；
1914。
｛2｝ 〃The Eighteen Nineties： A Review of Art and Idea at the Close
of the Nineteenth Century；〃 by Holbrook Jackson。 London： Grant
Richards Ltd。； 1913。
｛3｝ Mortimer Menpes。
｛4｝ M。 Constant Trop…Hardy； died at Berneval； March 2； 1898。
｛5｝ Hartwell de la Garde Grissell； a Papal Chamberlain。
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