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...Russian poet named Gortchakov, who is in Italy to write a book about a 17th-century composer, Gortchakov is accompanied by an interpreter, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano). Like Fellini, another comsummate stylist, Tarkovsky seems to have chosen his cast primarily for their visual qualities--particularly Giordano, who has the Surrealist-Madonna looks to complement the Surrealist-pastoral scenery forming the backbone of this film...
...many of the students around Garwolin would agree. At week's end a few hundred of them made a 130-mile pilgrimage to Czestochowa, home of the revered Black Madonna icon. Before the pilgrims left Garwolin, the Rev. Stanislaw Binko of the Church of the Transfiguration told them, "That which is happening before our eyes speaks to the whole world. Be brave...
...Poles sang patriotic anthems, hundreds of hands in the newly built church shot up in V-for-victory signs. Encamped in a side chapel, beneath a red-and-white banner bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect...
...said about our century is that it has managed to make this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained nothing in translation to contemporary San Francisco, where a dismal group of losers ineptly attempt to rob the safe of a pawnbroker who is, grumpily, the only friend they have...
...were two works by the 16th century Venetian master Tintoretto, and Portrait of a Young Man, attributed to Raphael. By far the most important of the works, however, was Raphael's 1508 Mary with the Christ Child and Young John the Baptist, known as the Esterházy Madonna after the Hungarian noble family that sold it to the state in 1872. A jewel of the collection, the Madonna gives rare insights into Raphael's compositional skills. Raphael Scholar James Beck of Columbia University estimates that it alone is worth between $1 million and $2 million, while...