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...We find an anguished Jacob holding up the bloodied cloak of his son Joseph (a Guercino rediscovery of 1995, est $1.5mn-$2mn) and Christ humiliated at the hands of brutish soldiers (Valentin de Boulogne,...
...In 2019 he sold a full-size 13th-century sculpture of Christ on the Cross: “Not the kind of thing you would expect to sell to a private collector.”...
...The title, the ninth hour, refers to the moment of Christ’s dying agony. According to Pirandello, “blasphemy activates the sacred”....
...Works from his Wiltshire B4 Christ collaboration with Prantera are also included in Radical Landscapes (Tate Liverpool, until 4 September), a show that cleverly weaves themes of identity and activism into...
...Interpretations have varied, from the official inventorying his possessions — “Christ with another figure above, stuck together, rough and unfinished” — to Henry Moore’s celebration of “the most moving sculpture...
...Christ almighty!” How does that feel? “It’s weird.”...
...He wouldn’t think, well, Christ, if I put my head up there it might get shot off. He’d say, c’mon, over the top.”...
...In 1941, Moore and Brandt were commissioned by the Ministry of Information to make works that showed Londoners sheltering in the Tube tunnels or other underground places such as Christ Church, Spitalfields...
...Due.Diligence@FT.com All roads lead to SoftBank Who can forget when Masayoshi Son, on a call with investors after delivering news that SoftBank had run up a record $13bn annual loss, compared himself to Jesus Christ...
...It remains to be seen whether his flying Christ will provide a neat bookend to an era....
...I thought: thank Christ I’m doing this otherwise much less impressive ride on a ridiculous Communist-era shopping bike. Not every daft quest comes with a guarantee of humorous jeopardy....
...As for sculpture, Mehringer Benappi flourishes a limewood “Saint John the Baptist” by Giovanni Angelo del Maino, Galleria Botticelli a terracotta “Christ the Redeemer” by Benedetto Buglioni, and Walter Padovani...
...Last year’s victor, the Hepworth Wakefield, has a fine collection of works by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and has mounted an inventive succession of exhibitions ....
...Lowry, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and in 2016 by the Victoria and Albert, which won predominantly on the strength of Savage Beauty, its blockbuster about fashion designer Alexander McQueen....
...The graphic novelist Alan Moore, another Kötting chum who features in Swandown and Edith Walks, “has a theory”, Kötting says, “that Harold never died....
...Horrified, yet having been taught that a husband is master of his wife just as Christ is leader of the church, she accedes....
...But I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. I don’t fear any man — or woman.”...
...In 1966 Barrington Moore, the American sociologist, wrote, “No bourgeoisie, no democracy.” In the coming years his proposition will be tested....
...Also of interest among the new releases is Burden, a tribute to performance pioneer Christ Burden, who once got shot in the arm for an art piece....
...There is something undeniably strange about Christ Church Spitalfields....
...There is something of that Madonna’s long oval face in this panel, while Gossaert has exaggerated the twist of the Christ Child to resemble an infant Laocoön....
...Earlier that month, Moore wore a low-cut ruby dress by the designer to collect her Bafta....
...As he holds his mother’s gaze, the Christ Child also clutches a goldfinch, which is pecking at his thumb, an allusion to the Passion....
...The two were introduced when Dufferin was still an undergraduate, “starting to buy the odd bit of modern art for his giant sitting-room in Christ Church College, Oxford”....
...“I have seen with my own eyes federation presidents who, after one day comparing Fifa leaders to the Devil, then go on stage and compare those same people with Jesus Christ. Nobody told me about this....
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