Word: crucifix
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...hates sunlight, prefers to sleep in a coffin and has an upside-down crucifix tattooed on her shaved scalp. He drinks blood and found her through a magazine ad that read: "Vampire seeks Princess of Darkness who hates everybody and everything." Together, Manuela and Daniel Ruda are accused of killing a close friend with a hammer and dozens of stab wounds. Said prosecutor Dieter Justinsky: "I have never, ever seen such a picture of cruelty and depravity...
...enough to simply declare something secular, it must also be judged acceptable by other standards. As such, even interpreted as a religious symbol, a Christmas tree represents only the celebration of a single holiday event—it is not an overt theological statement, as is a crucifix. Like the sukkah, or temporary shelter, that was put up in the Leverett House courtyard during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot earlier in the fall, the Christmas tree should be allowed to stay. Both are, and should be allowed as, legitimate expressions of religiously diverse House communities...
...lives and works in Cologne. Following a classical precedent, Richter was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the Cathedral of Padre Pio in Foggia, Italy. But Richter’s response was anything but classical: instead of presenting the piou with a limpid Christ hanging from a traditional crucifix, he painted a series of diamond-shaped canvases with a dense, rich red paint. Shades of yellow underpainting shine through the red pigments in spots, making his canvasses positively luminous. The Cathedral of Padre Pio rejected Richter’s works as being too abstract, but the Cathedral?...
...broad range of images collapsed into the space of the crucifix-the processional crosses in particular-was amazing, and encompass many more theological elements than the standard Christ-in-Torment . A common addition is the Apostle Quartet, usually in their symbolic representations: Luke as an ox, Matthew the angel, John the eagle, and Mark the lion. Two sets of plaques from processional crosses are beautifully enameled with these figures, the greens and blues breathtakingly vivid through so many centuries. Sometimes Adam rises from his tomb on the bottom spar, and in one mid 1400s Italian work it's Mary Magdalen...
...Francesco Terilli's ivory crucifix is especially beutiful. Terilli is the only acknowledged artist in the show, and, not unsurprisingly, this piece shows the most raw artistic talent in the collection. Christ, positively luminous against the simple black wooden cross, hangs barely pinioned to the crossbars, threatening to float off at any second. His hair and crown of thorns are rendered with ethereal detail, his face delicately worked, even the drops of blood from the wound in his side are ivory. This piece can't help but draw your undivided attention-and it's no wonder that it captured...