Filippino Lippi Adoration of the Child painting

Filippino Lippi Adoration of the Child paintingBartolome Esteban Murillo Madonna and Child paintingFilippino Lippi Madonna with Child and Saints painting
for him, Prophet Messenger : his eyes are open now. He paces the inner courtyard of his house, his wife's house, and will not go in to her. She is almost seventy and feels these days more like a mother than a. She, the rich woman, who employed him to manage her caravans long ago. were the first things she liked about him. And after a time, they were in love. It isn't easy to be a brilliant, successful woman in a city where the gods are female but the females are merely goods. Men had either been afraid of her, or had thought her so strong that she didn't need their consideration. He hadn't been afraid, and had given her the feeling of constancy she needed. While he, the orphan, found in her many women in one: mother sister lover sibyl friend. When he thought himself crazy she was the one who believed in his visions. "It is the archangel," she told him, "not some fog out of your head. It is Gibreel, and you are the Messenger of God."
He can't won't see her now. She watches him through a stonelatticed window. He can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence