Word: crucifixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against a wall painted to look like a strikingly blue Greek sky. The figures are bound to the wall by strands of concentration-camp barbed wire. Another piece consists of a plaster "torso" wearing a bloodstained gray jacket, its arms flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole...
...finely detailed 16th century crucifix with figures of Christ and the thieves is similar to another crucifix and house altar made in Bavaria during the reien of its devout Albrecht V for his official Munich residence. On the other hand, an enchanting 17th century heart-shaped crystal pendant with the tiny figures of Eve and the serpent, is believed by Parke-Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned...
...Doctrine of the Faith, a waiting monsignor led the visitor to a turn-of-the-century elevator. They rode down several floors, walked through rooms lined with musty, leather-bound volumes, entered yet another gloomy room. Across a heavy wooden table, decorated only with an austere black crucifix, sat a man in a black, violet-trimmed cassock. The visitor presented himself. "I am Illich...
...signed by the chiefs of all three Peruvian military services. Within hours after Belaúnde's departure, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the 58-year-old army commander and president of Peru's Joint Chiefs of Staff, took the oath as his successor before a candlelit crucifix in the presidential palace...
There are some pretty snowscapes, though, shot in the Italian Dolomites. And there is one hilarious reprise of an old burlesque gag: girl in bed raises crucifix to thwart approaching snaggletooth, who merely chuckles. "Baby," he says in a richly Yiddish accent, "hev you ever got the wrong vempire...