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...must go to his work; most of it cannot come to you -- not the murals and not many of the paintings either, most of which are now considered too frail to travel. Neither the St. Luke Altarpiece nor The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, that unsurpassably bitter and poignant image of the corpse on the stone slab, can leave the Brera in Milan, and the Louvre will never lend the Madonna della Vittoria to another museum...
...avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your eye in the most famous of his images, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. His willingness to emphasize single parts of the body in this weirdly iconic way is a reminder that, like any other artist of the time, he experienced antiquity mainly in fragments: broken parts and details of the huge lost whole...
...have great respect for President Rudenstine, but he is no theologian," Anderson said. "We are deeply saddened that he has lent credibility to Reverend Gomes' attempt to rewrite the Gospel of Christ...
...Love the sinner and despise the sin," saidAnderson, adding, "What [Gomes] is really doing ispreaching the gospel of Gomes instead of thegospel of Christ...
...novel centers on a legendary event: The birth of a child, who is born half-human, half-frog. The child is alternately cast as a demon, a victim of a diagnosable medical disease and a Christ-child; his mother, Magdalena, is similarly a divided character, a whore/saint...