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Pieta

Author : George Klein
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262610988
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Pieta written by George Klein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Albert Camus's famous dictum has it, the only truly important philosophical question is suicide, or whether or not life is worth living. Now, in Pieta, his latest collection of essays, George Klein -- distinguished biologist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and humanist -- faces this question head on, in a series of meditations on subjects ranging from the misuses of science to the vital importance of art, music, and literature to surviving catastrophes like the Holocaust and AIDS. Pieta is a passionate book of scientific and personal ethics, inspired by tragic events that resonate in the consciousness of each of us.Klein examines the thoughts of a number of people both famous and obscure -- whose lives may provide some sort of answer to Camus's philosophical question. One essay, for example, deals with the tormented and unstable Atilla Jozsef, one of Hungary's greatest poets and now a national hero. Other figures from the past appear, too: fellow Holocaust survivor Rudolf Vrba, one of the first people to escape from Auschwitz; Simon Srebnik, a teenaged Pole who survived the Nazis by working on their riverboats, singing sentimental ballads for them; the geneticist Benno Multler-Hill, whose meeting with Klein leads to a fascinating discussion of the role of German scientists in preparing the conceptual underpinnings of the Nazi genocide.Klein moves on to a more general elaboration of the misuses of science, from CIA-sponsored LSD experiments to medical experimentation by the Japanese in Manchuria, and ultimately to a thoughtful reconsideration of his own role and responsibility as a scientist. He uses his extensive medical background to present a discussion of the processes of the biology of individuality, concluding with an extended and impassioned look at AIDS, as both a biological problem and a situation that will require the utmost pieta from each of us.Born in prewar Hungary, George Klein was raised in Budapest in an intellectually prominent Jewish family. He has led the Department of Tumor Biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm for more than three decades.

Pietà

Author : Michael Fitzgerald
Publisher : Transit Lounge
ISBN 13 : 1925760820
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Pietà written by Michael Fitzgerald and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the last days of 1999. At St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as the world waits for the new millennium, Lucy, a young Australian woman looks up at Michelangelo’s Pietà behind its pane of bullet-proof glass; a red kabbalah string circles her wrist. She has come with the mysterious parcel her recently deceased mother asked her to bring to the box marked POSTE VATICANE. But before Rome there is Saint-Cloud. Here, on the outskirts of Paris, Lucy works as an au pair for Jean-Claude and his wife Mathilde. When Mathilde leaves for Central Australia to research the Aboriginal artist Kumanjayi, Lucy’s circle of contacts becomes smaller and strangely intimate: Jean-Claude, the baby Felix for whom she cares, and the couple’s charismatic friend Sébastien, a marble restorer. Yet Lucy’s homesickness for Australia and its vastness haunts her world, surfacing in the memories of her mother, the Australian garden at Empress Joséphine’s Malmaison, and Mathilde’s letters from Alice Springs. Lucy’s mother, Jude, who was a nun in the 1970s, once warned her daughter ‘to be careful what she wished for’. It is a caution that marks but rarely alters the choices these characters make. With lushness and tenderness, and revelation, Fitzgerald’s unforgettable novel Pietà exquisitely captures the glorious and imperfect relationships between parents and children, between art and life. ‘Vivid, clever and moving: Pietà is a timely meditation on art icons, iconoclasm and the mysteries of love and time.’ — Gail Jones, award-winning author of Our Shadows

The Pieta Prayer Book

Author : James Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521866948
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Pieta Prayer Book written by James Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pieta prayer book is a timeless masterpiece of traditional Catholic prayers - a wonderful little compendium of prayers and devotions including those of St. Bridget of Sweden and the 15 Miraculous prayers given to her, prayers to St. Michael, prayers said for the dying, spiritual communion, for souls in purgatory, and many more.Also known as The Little Blue Prayer Book, this prayer book is an effort to present the beautiful truths and devotions of our Roman Catholic Faith, in order that those who use these prayers devoutly may obtain greater grace to better serve God. The book draws particularly on that gigantic source of God's goodness and mercy - a source which is virtually untapped. Furthermore, there are utilized some texts that come from private revelations which also can spur us on to receive available graces by emphasizing even a deeper devotion to God.Prayers include:The 15 St. Bridget Prayers, Ave Maris Stella, Prayer to St. Joseph over 1900 yrs. old, Hail Mary of Gold, Three Very Beautiful Prayers, Prayer to the Infant of Prague, Prayers after Mass and Communion, The Rosary and Scapular, Short Way of The CrossPrayer to the Shoulder Wound of ChristThe Spiritual CommunionPrayer or Blessing Against StormsThe AngelusChaplet of St. MichaelSalve ReginaSt. ThereseThe Golden ArrowThe MagnificatLitany of HumilityEfficacious Novena to Sacred Heartand many, many more!

Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

Author : Lisa M. Rafanelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100083378X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives written by Lisa M. Rafanelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.

Divine Mercy Message and Devotion

Author : Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC
Publisher : Marian Press - Association of Marian Helpers
ISBN 13 : 1596142596
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Divine Mercy Message and Devotion written by Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC and published by Marian Press - Association of Marian Helpers . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why mercy is the mission of everyone in the Church! This is the handbook that has introduced millions of souls to the life-changing message that brings hope to a hurting world. It covers every aspect of the authentic Divine Mercy message and devotion - from the Feast and Hour of Great Mercy to the Chaplet and Novena, as well as selected prayers from the Diary of Saint Faustina.

The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture

Author : William H. Forsyth
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996819
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture written by William H. Forsyth and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1995 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ in her lap caught the popular imagination in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Forsyth, Curator Emeritus of Medieval Art at The Metropolitan Museum, surveys 167 Pieta sculptures, examining the image's rise, spread, and significance and focusing on the intriguingly diverse depictions of the Virgin's emotional state, as well as other distinctive regional variations. In addition, written sources of the Pieta image and its references in mystical writings are discussed. A catalogue provides summary information about some 1,250 Pietas. Includes 200 bandw illustrations and five maps. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Pieta in Flames

Author : Viktor Car
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105166732
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Pieta in Flames written by Viktor Car and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main character gets entangled into a world of corporate scheming and greed, sinking ever deeper into Faustian deals. Nadia is his long lost love, Croatia his lost homeland; Paris a symbol of his expired youth and a graveyard of his sentimental expectations. Disoriented and alone he looks for solutions in numbers and symmetries only to realize that 'nothing is real and duality is within.' This autobiographical novel takes place mainly in France, but it also takes us to Warszaw, Casablanca, Rome, Zagreb, Shanghai, Dallas, Strasbourg. The satanic culmination takes place in the global capital of fakery, Las Vegas.

Michelangelo's Florence Pietà

Author : Jack Wasserman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691016214
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Florence Pietà written by Jack Wasserman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: Digital images -- Technical and scientific content to supplement text.

Strange Pieta

Author : Gregory Fraser
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725447
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Strange Pieta written by Gregory Fraser and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth volume of poems in the Walt McDonald First-Book Series, Gregory Fraser's Strange Pietà is a compelling exploration of illness and family life, memory and desire, friendship and loss. A major focus of the collection is the poet's relationship to his brother Jonathan, who was born with spina bifida, a disease that rendered him both physically and mentally disabled. In rich and often wrenching detail, Fraser describes the emotional turmoil, familiar dysfunction, and complex social responses arising from the birth of a handicapped child.The book examines cultural standards of normalcy, and uncovers those aspects of the self and others that are often considered freakish, unnatural, or "monstrous." What emerges is a poetry of poignancy and intellectual rigor, of private discoveries and larger philosophical questions about faith, beauty, and the redemptive power of art.The various other poems in the volume frequently take up disturbing subjects from domestic abuse to violent global conflict, from the death of a parent to the breakup of a close friend's marriage. By turns urgent, tender, skeptical, and wry, Fraser's work displays a complexity of thought with a clarity of language and imagery.A two-time finalist for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Strange Pietà is, according to Robert Phillips, "an important debut." Phillips also writes, "This book, from beginning to end, shows the hand of one who has mastered his craft and lived long enough to have something to say." James Olney of The Southern Review describes Strange Pietà as "a resounding triumph of strictly ordered emotion."

Vivaldi's Virgins LP

Author : Barbara Quick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061285269
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Vivaldi's Virgins LP written by Barbara Quick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians cloistered in the foundling home where Antonio Vivaldi—known as the Red Priest of Venice—is maestro and composer. Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pietà as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. Her quest takes her beyond the cloister walls into the complex tapestry of Venetian society; from the impoverished alleyways of the Jewish Ghetto to a masked ball in the company of a king; from the passionate communal life of adolescent girls competing for their maestro's favor to the larger-than-life world of music and spectacle that kept the citizens of a dying republic in thrall. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be. A virtuoso performance in the tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vivaldi's Virgins is a fascinating glimpse inside the source of Vivaldi's musical legacy, interwoven with the gripping story of a remarkable young woman's coming-of-age in a deliciously evocative time and place.

Pieta`

Author : David Swartz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595511236
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Pieta` written by David Swartz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieta`: Song of the Blessed Virgin is the culminating volume of a master poet, who has charted his own truth and passage through the thicket of lesser work, of a host of contemporaries with limited pith and vision, venal ambition, a dogged tendency to measure themselves against peers and seldom the truly great. Witness here some sample rejections: "Your work has great power and mounting intensity but takes us further than we care to follow." "We can't publish this, but I'd like to meet you." "Your poem ['The Hitler Sonata'] would seep through the adjacent pages of our magazine and set fire to them." "Your work is too ambitious for our purposes." "Peaks and valleys merge; the mind feels blitzed." "I question that you'd dedicate this poem to a human being, let alone a woman." "I must reject this. My question to myself is whether I would have dared publish this even if it were Milton's." "We do not publish poetry [in response to 'Still Falls the Rain, ' a novel]." The full scope of this poet cannot easily be assessed, for he has spent 34 years not simply healing himself through his work but surviving [he is 68] as well. Aside from abundant skill, his paramount strength is an ability to stare directly into what most of us avoid at all cost, the very dark, the cauldron of existence. There are few, perhaps none, like him. Should they exist, they "also stand and wait." In the end, should the English language hold, time will assuredly be on their side. If there is greatness, it is, in fact, patience before the Fact.

Oil and Marble

Author : Stephanie Storey
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628726393
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.

The Orphan's Song

Author : Lauren Kate
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735212589
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Orphan's Song written by Lauren Kate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan's Song is a breathtaking story of passion, heartbreak, and betrayal, and a celebration of the enduring nature and transformative power of love. "A tangled knot of betrayal and love, lies and redemption. Marvelous." --Fiona Davis, author of The Address A song brought them together. A secret will tear them apart. When Violetta and Mino meet, one finds true love and the other denies it. Both orphans at the Hospital of the Incurables in Venice, an orphanage and music conservatory, they meet and make music together clandestinely until Violetta is selected for the Incurables' renowned chorus. In order to join she signs an oath never to sing beyond the church doors, effectively sequestering herself for life. Mino flees, heartbroken. Too late, Violetta realizes what she has lost. In rebellion she begins a dangerous and forbidden nightlife, unknowingly drawing closer to Mino as he searches Venice for his long-lost mother. Mino and Violetta must each journey through passion, heartache, and betrayal before a dangerous secret reunites them, leading to a shocking and final confrontation.

The Lost Michelangelos

Author : Antonio Forcellino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745681808
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Michelangelos written by Antonio Forcellino and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer - stumbled across some unpublished letters among the papers of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabella d’Este and an extremely important figure in the Italian Renaissance. These letters comment on the paintings of Michelangelo in a way that is completely at odds with what was to become the dominant critical tradition of Michelangelo scholarship, an inconsistency that set Forcellino off on a journey that took him to Dubrovnik, Oxford, New York and Niagara Falls and culminated in the discovery of two magnificent paintings: Pieta with Mary and Two Angels, now in a private collection in America, and Cavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an educational institution in England. Through a combination of careful historical research, extensive restoration and meticulous radiographic analysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these paintings can be traced back to the studio of Michelangelo. This extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into question the received view of Michelangelo’s work and fills in a missing piece in our understanding of one of the greatest artists of all time.

Pieta's Kiss

Author : Richard Maynard
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412031486
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Pieta's Kiss written by Richard Maynard and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's search for the Holy Grail, and his deepening involvement with an ancient society whose web reaches into every corner of society. His quest takes him into and beyond the practises of witchcraft, into ancient crypts and finally on a hunt for the very tomb of Adam.

Michelangelo

Author : Carmen C. Bambach
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396371
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo written by Carmen C. Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.

The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Author : A Nun of Kylemore Abbey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411603966
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary written by A Nun of Kylemore Abbey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best reference book on the Messages from the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary to Berthe Petit on the Devotion to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, along with a detailed biography of the messenger, Berthe Petit. Jesus states, "The hearts of men must be changed. This will only be realized through the devotion known, developed, preached and counseled everywhere... Recourse to my Mother under the title I wish for her universally, is the last help I shall give before the end of time... My Mother has acquired from her Heart the title of 'Sorrowful' by sharing generously in all the sufferings of My Heart and My Body from the crib to the cross...The title of 'Sorrowful' belongs therefore to the Heart of My Mother, and more than any other, this title is dear to Her because it springs from the union of her Heart with Mine in the redemption of humanity." Many black and white photographs. Imprimatur; Nihil Obstat.