Spécial Beau Dimanche Dominical
Andrei Rublev, also known as The Passion According to Andrei
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union, 1966, 205 min
‘The story of the 15th century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev (born in the 1360s, died 1427 or 29 January 1430) … He’s considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.‘
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
