at our death, never to find it again. On the contrary, according to the tenor of Scripture, beauty belongs to the eternal things, things that perish here in order later to return eternally in a more exalted form, and only then to make the full glorifying of God’s majesty radiate throughout his creation. According to Scripture, then, beauty cannot be separated from God. “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth” (Ps. 50:2). “For how great,” Zechariah cries out, “is his goodness, and