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...Lerma’s personal collection, which contribute a more fleshed out sense of the court’s artistic culture.One of the most fascinating elements of the exhibit is the way it sheds light on the influences of other artistic styles on Spanish painting. Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens’ portrait of the Duke of Lerma is the only work in the exhibit not by a Spaniard. His enormous painting, which ushered in a new style of grandeur that became the hallmark of Philip’s reign, demonstrates stylistic exchange across borders. Many of the painters...
...saving up whatever spare change I could find in the corners of my house in order to buy that brightly beaded jump rope. György Dragomán’s novel, “The White King,” newly available in a translation by Paul Olchváry, shows that he feels the same way. Dragomán explores the dynamics of a violent and unstable society through the eyes of his child narrator, Djata, who is constantly attempting to come to terms with the world. Dragomán is able to bring the reader along...
...stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same affinity for the popular Italian wonder-worker who died...
...Vegas-meets-Bethlehem hilltop pilgrimage destination. They were there to see the exhumed corpse of Padre Pio, which had been put on display in a glass casket, with a special silicon mask - beard, bushy eyebrows and all - created by London-based wax museum artisans. Everyone knows what John Paul II felt about Padre Pio. But how can Benedict, the intellectually rigorous theologian, dubbed "the Pope of Reason," sanction such widespread belief in faith-healing and emotional attachments to icons and relics...
Some may even note a snub of sorts. John Paul visited San Giovanni Rotondo in 1987 to mark 100 years since Padre Pio's birth. But Benedict is making his second papal visit to the Puglia region in June, and has left the town off his itinerary both times...