Here are seven important dates regarding the life Martin Luther and his involvement in the Protestant Reformation that he began. They include the Diet of Worms, the release of the German New Testament, and his death.
Here are seven important dates regarding the life Martin Luther and his involvement in the Protestant Reformation that he began. They include the Diet of Worms, the release of the German New Testament, and his death.
Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.
Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo Sin Review: The Madness and Melancholy of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky s handsomely lensed film about the great Italian artist grapples with how to create divine works amid earthly travails.
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Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
With: Alberto Testone, Jakob Diehl, Francesco Gaudiello, Federico Vanni, Glenn Blackhall, Orso Maria Guerrini, Anita Pititto. (Italian dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 134 MIN.
To say “Sin” is about Michelangelo is much too reductive. Rather than offering up a definitive portrait of the Italian artist, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky has crafted instead He’s all those things and yet defined by none of them. It’s telling that “Sin” doesn’t actually spend much time with Michelangelo creating, less interested as it is in what makes a great artist than in the material conditions that shape and inspire one.
he was a pleasure loving man, loved the arts, theater, music, all that sort of thing. leo x and members of the medici dynasty represent the most glorious aspect of the papacy at the beginning of the 16th century and also its nemesis. they are the initiators of the alliance between the papacy and the arts and the corruption of western christianity altogether. leo x celebrates his election with a party in florence. part of the celebration includes a young boy painted in gold. in the middle of the festivities, the boy dies from paint poisoning. many see this death of the