Word: crucifixions
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...just the other day, I saw something which reassured me that whatever excesses go on within Harvard's walls are always ten times worse in Harvard square. A man sported a T-shirt which next to a depiction of the crucifixion proclaimed "This Blood's for You." At first I thought this linkage of an old Budweiser slogan ("this Bud's for you") and an old patristic doctrine ("transubstantiation") was a garish parody of an evangelical fervor and the tendency of doctrine to be lost in the effusiveness of missionary spirit. Alas, it was no parody...
...room and see 18 Giorgiones all in a row -- well, maybe 15, if you want to quarrel about attributions -- or to contemplate, in the same place at the same time, so many of the sublime works of Titian's old age, from The Flaying of Marsyas to the Ancona Crucifixion. The drawings and prints alone, which show the mutual development of Titian and Giorgione in intimate detail, reveal the use made of their designs by engravers like Domenico Campagnola and demonstrate Titian's own astonishing power and inventiveness as a maker of multiple-block woodcuts...
When you look around Barcelno you first sense the pure giddiness of the city in its buildings. One facade of the Sagrada Familia church, the city's most famous landmark and the creation of iconoclastic architect Antonio Gaudf, shows a stylized crucifixion with a nude and faceless Modernista Jesus, while another side, constructed seemingly of marzipan, seems on the verge of melting...
...solemnly across the stage, occasionally sinking to the floor or collapsing into one another's arms. Sometimes they pause in a dreamy tableaux, their arms reaching toward the heavens. At times, however, the religious motif becomes too heavy-handed, as when six women lift the seventh into a distinct crucifixion pose and walk reverently in a circle with her body...
...many times. For though we now paint following a different course and method, if it is not established upon this kind of study, ((our)) painting may easily end in ruin." This is why Michelangelesque poses often recur in Ribera's early work, such as the half- ruined, still impressive Crucifixion, circa 1625, whose twisting Christ is based directly on a famous Michelangelo drawing...