Confessions of Saint Augustine Jewelry By Linda Nochlin

By Linda Nochlin

Delightfully naturalistic

including preliminary sketches

he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle

She paid a fraction of the price of her most expensive Italian paintings

Confessions of Saint Augustine Jewelry By Linda NochlinThe son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and worldviews. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead an ardent devotee of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography touching