Word: becket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realism. But the triumph of Meister Francke's mature style is seen in the St. Thomas of Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine panels of this darkly glowing work depict episodes in the life of Thomas à Becket, together with scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop half turns toward his attackers. Blood streams down his forehead and splashes onto his white...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole in Becket...
Died. Welton Becket, 66, master architect whose clean, functional structures grace five continents; of congestive heart failure; in Los Angeles. Becket's eclectic approach lacked the individuality of a Mies van der Rohe or a Frank Lloyd Wright. "We are trying to solve the client's problems, and it is out of the solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans...
...SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Becket (1964). Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and John Gielgud in the film version of Jean Anouilh's 1959 drama about King Henry II of England and his friend Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury...
...pilgrims gather for a fitting finale at the candlelit cathedral shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, and a choral reprise of the prioress' and the nun's earlier simple duet...