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Lawal's primary interest is art history but, he said, "when dealing with African arts you can't help talking about religion. It provides the main sort of basis for the arts, it is the chief patron...
...sign of doing, for another 200 years. First there were his ex-students, Anthony Van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Even more important were the French Rubénistes. "From the moment I received it, I have not had a moment's repose," Antoine Watteau wrote to his patron Julienne after he had been given a picture by Rubens, "and my eyes are never weary of returning toward the easel where I have placed it as if in a shrine...
...barriers of time, religion and culture, Winthrop sensed qualities of harmony, integrity and tradition in ancient Chinese jades that made him cherish them above his other possessions. His legacy to us is his insight and sensitivity, both of which are amply displayed in the Fogg's tribute to their patron...
...kind of complexity that never works on stage except in Shakespeare. Shaffer's portrayal of Strang's parents reveal him at his weakest. The father is a self-proclaimed atheist and Marxist, but a sternly Puritan advocate of the work ethic, who, it turns out, is also a patron of dirty movies. The mother is an indulgent Christian who takes the first opportunity to renounce any responsibility she may bear for her son's condition: Alan was a fine boy until the Devil came along, she says. It is enough to personify Dionysus and Apollo; the stage buckles under...
...subject provided considerable material for the A.J.C. report, says that Spain is by far the worst offender. There the legend of Domingo del Val, a choirboy allegedly crucified in the 13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint and a cross with him upon...