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...with stray white feelers. In The Crucifixion With Two Donors (ca. 1580) you can almost feel the left-hand donor's crumpled surplice. The other's ruff is scribbled in white paint, and his eye is made to shine with a pure black highlight. This picture rested on an altar, and when the priest said mass, he would be on the same level - and almost in the same space - as the waist-length donor figures at the foot of the cross. El Greco's portraits are simply presented: a pale central figure looks straight out from darkness. Jerónimo...
...prudent son of a Baltimore, Md., grocer, meets the spirited Pauline, his opposite in most things. Just because opposites attract doesn't mean they attach--it's a lesson Tyler has taught before--and the link between these two is going bad even before they get to the altar. For the next 30 years or so, it's all touch...
Pilger was a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to abusing three altar boys in his Western Kentucky parish in 1995 and received a mere five years probation...
...real tragedy of the black market in looted Asian antiquities is not so much the crime against the dead as the crime against the perpetrators themselves [Oct. 27]. Wittingly or unwittingly, the looters have sacrificed their heritage on the altar of greed. Thoughtless European and American dealers and buyers, weary of their own heritage, now prefer Asia's. But no matter how many Asian relics they collect, no alchemy can transform Europe or America into Asia. COSMOS ODOEMENA Sokoto, Nigeria
...Selling Their Heritage The real tragedy of the black market in looted Asian antiquities is not so much the crime against the dead as the crime of the perpetrators themselves [Oct. 20]. Wittingly or unwittingly, the looters have sacrificed their heritage on the altar of greed. Thoughtless European and American dealers and buyers, obviously weary of their own heritage, now prefer Asia's. But no matter how many Asian relics they collect, no alchemy can transform Europe or America into Asia. Cosmos Odoemena Sokoto, Nigeria...