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...show covers every medium of visual art known in Europe, from armor to paper, from ceramics to tapestry. Durer, of course, is universally known--the Leonardo of the North, spiky, obsessive, all-seeing, whose images fluctuate between reverence for the world's tender details and horror at its resilient otherness. In Durer as in no other artist one sees the moralized universe of the Middle Ages retreating before the scientific one of the Renaissance, not giving ground gracefully but fighting every inch of the way. What the Nuremberg show offers is virtually a self-contained retrospective of his prints--famous...
...related development, the Vatican unexpectedly dropped the sanctions that had been imposed on Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, the leading liberation theologian of Brazil, who had been forbidden to speak publicly for nearly a year. "The decision on my case cleansed the atmosphere before publication of the document," said Boff, who teaches at a seminary in Petropolis. He believes that the lifting of sanctions demonstrated a new Vatican attitude of openness and "confidence in the (Brazilian) bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives...
Citing the difference between the two counts, Political Affairs Minister Leonardo Perez said he would seek the assembly's approval to terminate all other vote-counting immediately...
Roman police last week also arrested two other Arabs who arrived at the ( capital's Leonardo da Vinci Airport bearing suitcases, each carrying 7.7 lbs. of plastic explosive. The duo had Moroccan passports similar to those carried by the captured Achille Lauro hijackers. Said Rome Prosecutor Rosario Priore: "We suspect that all these Moroccan passports may be linked. Possibly they come from a single stock made available for terrorist actions...
...apparent pursuit of his swishing tail; a stampede of combative horses, whose armed riders look dwarfed and almost incidental; a 17th century Deccan woman, jeweled and draped for display rather than mobility, feeding a bird in an imaginary hillside landscape suggestive of the Italian Renaissance; a painfully detailed sketch, Leonardo- like in its medical curiosity, of a shriveled courtier on his deathbed...