Word: pieta
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...other in the same walled (and locked) garden. Around the grounds are chapels - replicas of famous European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas of Michelangelo's David and La Pieta. A massive stained-glass version of one of Jackson's favorite works of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, is the artistic highlight of the Great Mausoleum. (Jackson had a version of the painting at Neverland, with Christ replaced by himself and the disciples by the likes...
...just in the Nazified naughtiness of her night-at-the-Anvil routines, or the treatment of boys as toys (the Queen steps on their supine writhing bodies). It's in the dressing up as iconic actresses, the power plays and the nurturing of her brood. In a Pieta pose the star strikes with one dancer, she looks like a Mother Teresa to the emotionally homeless. The fascinating thing about Madonna is that she is all-real and all-fake -- in other words, pure show biz. Girlie Show -- at once a movie retrospective, a Ziegfeld revue, a living video...
...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 1-ft.-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Pieta. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...
...hotel. During that magical week, we visited museums--including the Palazzo Grassi's stunning exhibition on the Etruscans--took long walks, dined out and window-shopped. Just before we flew home in first-class comfort, we attended a brilliant performance of the Four Seasons in Santa Maria della Pieta, the church where Venetian-born Antonio Vivaldi first performed this work in the early 18th century...
...Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...