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...attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where...
From the start, Weston was not a traditional monastery. With the encouragement of the Benedictine abbot primate in Rome, the brothers updated rituals while keeping faithful to the spirit of Benedictine monasticism. When several monks failed to appear for matins at 4 a.m., for example, the brothers examined the need to make the prayer more their own. What had been an hour and a half of psalm singing and Scripture reading is now a third as long and much more contemporary. Among the readings are excerpts from modern theologians like Edward Schillebeeckx and Henri Nouwen and from Third World proponents...
...alma mater, in 1956, just two years after Greeley was. Greeley remembers being "very cautious, very conservative. I kept all the rules." So does Sean. Assigned to a black parish (unlike Greeley), he works himself to near collapse. A new archbishop sends the exhausted curate off to Rome to study the history of church marital theology, and Sean finds himself on the famous papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain from voting. The move wins him an interview with Pope Paul VI, whom he lectures about the need for a new theology of sexual morality. Sean could...
...laws, and his name had become increasingly linked with Financier Michele Sindona, currently serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for his role in the collapse of New York's Franklin National Bank. Not long after the billion-dollar "hole" was discovered, Calvi disappeared from his elegant Rome apartment. He had been reported missing until his body, weighted down with 20 lbs. of stones, was discovered hanging from the iron grillwork of London's Blackfriars Bridge. Police say his death appeared to be a suicide, but they are not ruling out the possibility of foul play...
...tended to be seen condescendingly as a manual business, a craft. The story of French art in this period is very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy. This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic prototypes, Rome, which supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind him a vast legacy of influence all over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom...