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...every textural detail: neither beads of water nor grains of sand on the skin's surface escape him, but in fact add textural depth to the picture. Another series of photographs shows models encrusted with white or black paint, turning their living bodies into images reminiscent of classical Greco-Roman statues...
Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto...
Pino ("The Shoe") Greco (assassinated...
Salvatore ("The Senator") Greco (cousin of The Shoe...
...entertaining, so rich? Suddenly Last Summer calls for a garden that is "more like a tropical jungle, or forest, in the prehistoric age of giant fern-forests when living creatures had flippers turning to limbs and scales to skin." The Glass Menagerie asks for light "such as El Greco's, where the figures are radiant in atmosphere that is relatively dusky." If demands like these normally would appear affected or ostentatious, Williams makes them look like the hospitable requests of a man desperate to convey his vision...