In persute of Truth

“Was Somebody asking to see the soul?

See , your own shape and countenance..”

Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass

Please discuss one or two of the following statements:

1. When viewing a work of art, or listening to one, can we see

the truth?  Can we feel it?

2. Medieval artists resorted to Geometry to express a spiritual truth , and Baroque composers built their cannon on a mathematical symmetry.  Are these methods limit  our definitions of truth and therefore of beauty?