Word: martyrdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painted between the death of Michelangelo and the maturity of Rembrandt), are not here. So it is best to treat the Met's show as a preparation for pilgrimage and to ignore the blatant copies, pastiches and restored wrecks, such as The Magdalen in Ecstasy, The Toothpuller and The Martyrdom of St. Ursula, with which its closing rooms are unfortunately padded...
...portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting the palm frond at an angle subtended by the arc of the broken wheel...
Thomas' martyrdom was an irony More himself might have appreciated. Henry VIII, in Marius' view a frightened, defensive monarch, already tired of the mistress he was determined to marry, faced in his Lord Chancellor a holy man manque, with whip and hair shut, whose secret passion had always been to become a monk...
Before the seven-truck convoy of Ugandan soldiers moved into Namu-gongo, the village was known primarily for its shrine commemorating the martyrdom of 45 Christians who were burned alive in 1885. But in a modern-day massacre, by the time the troops left last May they had ransacked the town, executed an Anglican priest and tortured and killed as many as 100 villagers. When army units swept north through the Karamoja region, there were reports of more atrocities. After driving more than 20,000 farmers and cattle breeders from their homes, the soldiers obliterated villages, killed livestock and destroyed...
...second mistake was to prefer a clear conscience to any meaningful conception of politics. The anti-war movement was gestated in miniscule groups of moral protest, like the Boston Resistance, with a quasi-religious fervor for martyrdom. For many of us, it was simply enough to be right. So to the extent we were moved to action, we were interested not in convincing or compromise, but rather only in the direct expression of our political beliefs. The passion for directness was a kind of style. We dressed in our politics, and we wanted all who met us to confront them...