Did Matisse Know God?

The Chapelle du Rosaire sits on a small hillside in Vence, France. The small chapel’s relatively plain exterior gives way to a breathtaking interior, where light pours in — vivid shades of yellow, green, and blue, bouncing off sinuous and dynamic depictions of the Virgin and Child and the Stations of the Cross. The 20th century expressionist painter Henri Matisse, when asked by a reporter from

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