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...recant his heretical notion that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo's condemnation broke the academy's spirit, and for more than a century it was hardly more than a library. In 1795, the academy was revived, only to be suppressed in 1840 by Pope Gregory XVI. In 1847, Pope Pius IX restored the old society, called it the Pontifical Academy of New Lynxes...
...June 3 XII T, Th, S at 10 Mon., June 5 XIII T, Th, S at 11 Fri., May 26 XIV T, Th, S at 12 Th., June 1 XV T, Th, S at 1 Sat., May 27 XVI T, Th, S at 2 Sat., May 27 XVII T, Th, S at 3 Th., May 25 XVIII...
Feather on a Head. What is architecture? It was, said Le Corbusier in his book, something that went far beyond style. "The styles of Louis XIV, XV, XVI, or Gothic, are to architecture what a feather is on a woman's head." Essentially, architecture was the "masterly, correct, and magnificent placing of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light. Cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage...
...named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration and established her feast day (Aug. 11), and in 1855 Pope Pius IX approved a Mass and office for that...
...bearish thing on the market during the past two months has been armor. At Christie's in London, a recent sale of 358 items brought in less than $34,000; at the Palais Galliera in Paris, on the other hand, someone paid $48,000 for a small Louis XVI table. In the past year, the prices of Flemish, French and Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought...