Images of the pair deep in conversation and facing each other amid the serenity of the Italian high renaissance church contrasted sharply with the televised chaos of their last meeting in Washington.

“It feels like a painting that you would see in a Renaissance church, where you get to the ... shielding her eyes against the sun, while the middle character stares fixedly toward her right ...

The high, clear countertenor, like something out of Renaissance church music ... every cliché of union-made American middle-class prosperity held to be self-evident. And music was a big part ...