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...And mothership is the word for this vast futuristic white building just outside the centre of Zürich, designed by architects Christ & Gantenbein, which even has its own dedicated bus stop, “Lindt & Sprüngli...
...Above the iconostasis, the life of Christ is illuminated in glorious reds and blues beneath gold skies....
...A tiny butterfly in perpetual motion, by sculptor Rebecca Horn, seems to signal human frailty....
...Rebecca West called her “perhaps the best descriptive writer of our time”; Jonathan Raban said her essays were “very close to being pure magic”....
...The work is as musically divine as it is elusive, consisting mainly of Old Testament texts as it affirms the doctrine of Christ’s messianic arrival, crucifixion and resurrection....
...Also featured are feathered mechanisms by Rebecca Horn and clunky “flying machines” fashioned from bicycles, umbrellas and fabric by German inventor Gustav Mesmer, “the Icarus of Lautertal”....
...Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ lies somewhere between religious oratorio, opera and dramatic symphony in a partly biblical, partly imaginary account of the threats that faced the infant Jesus....
...And Max Ernst is the inspiration behind the extravagant drones of “Rebecca, Dressed as a Waterfall”....
...It acquired Pietro Lorenzetti’s ravishing 14th-century panel painting, “Christ between Saints Paul and Peter”, for £1,612,940, including a £200,000 contribution from the Art Fund....
...museum’s Pompei, some hundred works chart centuries of excited responses to Naples and its ancient sites, including Johan Christian Dahl’s 1820 imaginary Romantic landscape featuring the erupting volcano, Rebecca...
...It sold for $72m ($81.3m with fees) over the phone to Rebecca Wei, Christie’s Asia president....
...You can go back way into human history, so the rise of China, before the birth of Christ was significant for later Western development....
...Jesus Christ. Which books are currently on your bedside table?...
...Meanwhile, a rich temporary programme has seen pieces by Rebecca Horn, Antony Gormley and Yoko Ono make appearances over the past decade....
...Bach’s Christmas Cantata “Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ”, BWV 91, spotlighted Julie Cooper’s bell-like soprano and Blaze’s sinuous countertenor, put to most mesmerising effect when joined together in duet...
...Rebecca Mead is a writer for the New Yorker....
...Rebecca Davis is a columnist for the Daily Maverick, a South African online newspaper...
...Rebecca Taichman created spare semi-abstract stage pictures, abetted by Leo Warner’s designs and video devices created by 59 Productions....
...There is a false and snobbish notion that the high watermark of travel writing occurred in the 1930s, with the work of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Peter Fleming, Robert Byron, Freya Stark and Rebecca West...
...I also have a small group of early Gothic ivories I bought 30 years ago, the best being my 1310-20 Isle de France carved ivory relief of The Life of Christ – it’s the right half of a diptych....
...Although the Turner favours conceptualism, in recent years there has always been one flamboyant, boisterous maker on the short-list: sculptor Rebecca Warren last year, Jim Lambie in 2005, Yinka Shonibare...
...Tall and lean, Waldman speaks in a quiet, deliberate manner, and if his hair were a bit longer, he might be described as vaguely Christ-like....
...Abi Titmuss or Rebecca Loos; who's hotter? robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
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