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...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...“We were constantly asked by our friends where they could get them,” says Viola. And so began an e-commerce business....
...He explains that he was a viola player at the time they met and gave the premiere of her Viola Concerto at the BBC Proms in 1973....
...Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s (BBC1, Monday, 10.45pm) takes us through his 12-year quest to create the artworks, one evoking the life of the Virgin Mary, the other the tortures and deaths of the Martyrs...
...Scholars have debated the issue for decades — potential candidates include Aline Florio, wife to a translator, Mary Fitton, a lady-in-waiting, and “Black Luce”, a brothel-owner....
...” (2008) is displayed in relation to another masterpiece, Donatello’s “Saint Mary Magdalene as Penitent” (1455)....
...So, unabashed and without shame, here are two recipes lifted in smaller or greater measure from Mary Taylor Simeti’s Sicilian Food (Grub Street)....
...Enter Vincent Viola, the founder and executive chairman of HFT firm Virtu Financial....
...The first image in Bill Viola’s video work “Mary” for St Paul’s Cathedral in London is a clash between modernity and timelessness, the superficial and the profound, the seductions of technology and the biological...
...Biographica is the culmination of almost two decades’ work by the Australian composer Mary Finsterer....
...The English folk singer Mary Hampton used to present her wares on home-recorded CDs with handfolded lyrical inserts as intricate as origami, passed around like Samizdat....
...In the South Quire Aisle, it’s on long-term loan from Tate and stands to be joined by a second Viola work later this year....
...The four-screen video by Viola will be the first moving-image work of art to be permanently installed in a British cathedral. (A second Viola installation, entitled “Mary”, is also planned.)...
...It will be joined next year by a companion piece, “Mary”. Together they will address “some of the profound mysteries of human existence”, says the artist....
...Mary and Elizabeth look into each other’s eyes as if they held the secret of ages. One of the other women looks directly at us; the other stares over Mary’s shoulder at some invisible mystery....
...The words, spoken after Mary Pook recovered from mental illness, have been incorporated into Hearing Voices, Pook’s dramatised song-cycle on the theme of mental breakdown....
...Accompanied by neat text explaining familial characteristics from Amaryllis to Viola....
...“There’s no point in rushing Bill Viola, who aims at a feature-film standard,” says Nairne. “You have to take the long view.” The works’ twin themes are Mary and the martyrs....
...Sinnika Langeland Maria’s Song (ECM) The Virgin Mary fell out of favour in Norway after the Reformation, but hints of her peep through folk songs....
...Like hallucinations in Mary’s mind, these imaginatively heighten the emotional level until the nerve endings bristle....
...But his Mary is a vital, crop-haired young woman in a flame-red dress while the female onlooker wears the lapis hue traditional to the Madonna....
...Mary Chun (pictured) conducted with understandable relish. Tel +1 415 585 9776 www.earplay.org...
...Apart from the restaging of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead Christ, it’s hard to understand the point of this stylishly lit pair. It does, however, encourage a certain self-critique....
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