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...looting of all Europe by Napoleon's armies to surpass such Bourbon largesse. "We will now have all that is beautiful in Italy except for a few objects in Turin and Naples," Napoleon boasted. The booty kept flowing in, including such masterpieces as Veronese's Marriage at Cana, largest canvas (22 ft. by 32 ft.) in the Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon...
...turning out popular landscapes and portraits, Spencer has devoted the past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things and a part of perfection...
...emigrate to Canada just before World War II. (Author Lewis, born in Maine when his globe-trotting parents took a cruise to the U.S., himself came to North America in World War II, stayed six years.) The book gives a shattering account of life in a rundown, chaotic, Cana dian hotel room during the convulsions of wartime. The real theme of Self Condemned is a blow-by-blow account of how a proud, independent man loses his integrity and makes a peace-without-honor with a way of life he despises. Professor Rene Harding leaves Britain because he finds himself...
...Kurschinski would refer to John 2:1-11 (King James), he would find that the Mother of Christ was instrumental in the first miracle-the turning of water into wine at the marriage feast of Cana. Truly, then, if she were responsible for the first miracle, she certainly must have been instrumental in many others since...
...feast of Cana...