Word: pietà
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Listen up, class: we are in the late, or decadent, phase of action-adventure cinema. By now there have been as many variations on the spy-vs.-spy genre as Renaissance artists did on the Piet?. So a presummer blockbuster like Mission: Impossible III, confected by TV auteur J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost), is inevitably a commentary on every action movie that preceded it. Such an endeavor brings out the scholar in its audience and the pedagogue in its reviewers. For real students of the form, straight questions about M:i:III are too easy. (What film is this film most...
...show. Eccentric as this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving - whittling, really - of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 30-cm-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Piet?. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...
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