Who would argue that Michelangelo’s sculpture of Our Lady cradling the dead body of Jesus (known as the Pietà) is not a great work of art? That it isn’t capable of moving certain audiences in a way that a theoretical knowledge of the death of Jesus may not have been able to move them? That such a movement, if granted, pertains only to the intellect of the audience, or the emotions, and not also to the soul? And that the direction of that movement isn’t toward sublimity, and an expansion of the capacity for virtue?