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...In an undeniable echo of the Pietà, Adam and Eve grieve over the death of their son Abel, murdered by his older brother Cain. Most artistic depictions of Cain and Abel focus on the fratricide....
...All six principals are strong, the others being Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka as the two lovers, and last but definitely not least, Kelli O’Hara as the scheming maid Despina....
...Deceit has been worming its way into the love affairs of men and women since the time of Adam and Eve....
...Georgina Adam is editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper...
...Two Old Masters, Cosmè Tura’s lurid shrivelled “Pieta” (1460) from Venice’s Museo Correr, and a stark, glassy “Crucifixion” (1540) by Bronzino, set against a rare early Jackson Pollock “Crucifixion” (1939...
...Kim Ki-Duk’s Pietà is the South Korean director’s latest bid to resist charges of cogency in his work....
...And while Adam Fischer keeps the Vienna Philharmonic on a tight leash, he finds nothing strikingly dramatic or original to say. Fiordiligi’s “Per pietà” stops the rot....
...The first act meanders around the perils of TV grotesquerie; the second follows our antihero to hell, where he eventually assumes a pietà pose en route to his dubious reward....
...He was the sole Old Master whom Marcel Duchamp tolerated (Man Ray’s photograph of Duchamp staging Cranach’s “Adam and Eve” is currently at Tate Modern)....
...His work is so truly iconic – Florence’s statue “David”, Rome’s “Pietà”, the Sistine Chapel’s “Creation of Adam” – that although each masterpiece announces the individual hand of the artist, above all his...
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