Word: pernambuco
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...What we need is a national system to catalogue the country's religious art," he said. "That way, if something is stolen in Rio then it can't be resold in Pernambuco or São Paulo, and if something is stolen in Pernambuco or São Paulo, then it can't be resold here...
...Brazil is a particularly rich source of religious art, because during the 17th and 18th centuries it was the only art form encouraged by the country's devoutly Catholic rulers. In the states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the northeast, and Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro in the south, Portuguese settlers built baroque churches dripping with gold, silver and art. But today, much of that art is gone. "The last time I checked, we had registered 188 works of art stolen - that's since 2000," says Vanessa de Souza, a Brazilian police chief and delegate to Interpol. "We think...
Crafted out of materials like black gold, pernambuco wood and cacholong stone, iconic architect Frank Gehry's first-ever jewelry collection for Tiffany draws on his childhood memories as well as structural elements from his renowned buildings. The Torque cuffs, below, are modeled on his signature curved and twisted lines. Gehry says that for him jewelry was not a big leap of imagination: "The impulse is always the same?to discover new forms that have a natural flow and a relevance to contemporary life...