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...candle flame, streaming upward from its stubby pillar of wax, was one of the favorite images in 17th century European art. Vulnerable to a breath, shedding its modest light and resolving the threats of darkness into rational form, it became a metaphor of human consciousness itself. Indeed, a tradition of the "night piece" runs back to the late 15th century, when Leonardo set down his precepts for painting dramatic firelit groups. Rembrandt in Holland and Caravaggio in Rome produced unforgettable examples of the genre. But the artist whose work is most intimately associated with candlelight was Frenchman: Georges...
...perched on a blind beggar's hurdy-gurdy; the sole object of his scrutiny was man and woman and their intimate possessions - the texture and sheen of velvet, the transparency of a glass, or (as in the Wrightsman Magdalen) the exact difference in the highlights that a tallow flame creates on the bone of a skull and on the grayed sea luster of a pearl. But La Tour was not a painter of still lifes with figures. A phrase like "the human condition," though worn, is not to be avoided: it was his field, and he covered it with...
...evident in the serene, egglike oval of the courtesan's head, seen in broad day, as it is in the cuirasses and helmets of the gambling soldiers in The Denial of St. Peter, glimpsed by candlelight. A body or a hand is silhouetted against a shielded flame in order to display, with effortless virtuosity, its linear nature as form. Indeed, La Tour's night pieces look like predictions of Cubism; the background is as active as the figure, voids read as strongly as solids. This quality gives his compositions an immense formal authority - Caravaggio, whose followers La Tour...
Blackmail. Bailley's troubles grew out of his activities with Astrid Lee-flang, an old flame. While she was a student at the University of Maryland, Bailley brought her to his Washington apartment for drinks. Soon Bailley introduced the girl, whom he affectionately refers to as "old Fling Flang," to other men. His relationship with Astrid may have been part of a pattern extending over three years. Some women have testified that Bailley would take photographs of girls in the nude with whom he spent the night and then blackmail them into prostitution...
...hast seen fit to charge Warlock Shai with thy priesthood on earth ... the deification of the human race." Reciting an ordination rite first in Latin and then in English, the speaker taps a second man on each shoulder with a sword. Someone pours flash powder on the sterno altar flame and whoosh! Fire leaps toward the ceiling...