Leonardo da Vinci, as played by Aidan Turner in new period drama
Leonardo, is a man out of his time. He imagines the world from above, sees pioneering cinematic compositions on blank walls, designs war machines that will not be fully realised by other minds until centuries later. Yet this Leonardo is also erratic, and hamstrung by his quest for perfection.
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It is true that the painter often delayed and procrastinated, taking years to complete many of his famous works and leaving countless more unfinished. Bringing humanity to the universally accepted fact of Leonardo’s genius is a new drama, written by Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson. But how do you create a 21st-century drama that conveys the ground-breaking nature of Leonardo’s work?
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As we ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here s a reminder of the fun that awaits us in Europe at the other end of this crisis.
They say that for every church in Rome, there s a bank in Milan. Indeed, the economic success of postwar Italy can be attributed, at least in part, to this second city of bankers, publicists, and pasta power-lunchers. While overshadowed by Venice, Florence, and Rome in the minds of travelers, Milan still has plenty to offer anyone who visits.
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April 9, 2021 at 7:05 am
Artists today generally paint what they wish to paint, hoping to make a living by selling their work at exhibitions or through dealers. But early in the Italian Renaissance, painters were regarded still as craftsmen rather than artists. They were ruled by the conventions of their workshops, and for any major painting commission they were at the behest of a client or patron. The patron might sometimes be benign, allowing their painter some independence, but often they were considerably more demanding. Contracts usually outlined in detail exactly what the painter was to show in his work, and imposed clear conditions on the quality of materials to be used, the delivery date and how much the painter would be paid.
Thiruvananthapuram YWCA’s message of hope for Holy Week
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The Thiruvananthapuram chapter of the YWCA make a video of tableaux depicting the important events of Holy Week and the Resurrection
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The Thiruvananthapuram chapter of the YWCA make a video of tableaux depicting the important events of Holy Week and the Resurrection
When members of the YWCA, Thiruvananthapuram, decided to come up with something special for Holy Week, they were determined to do a programme that would be different and yet stick to the theme of Passion Week.
03/13/2021 at 2:17 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The re-creation of the Italian painter’s masterpiece, carried out by internationally renowned moviemakers, will be displayed in Jerusalem, Milan and Rome to bring hope to populations hit by the coronavirus health crisis as Easter approaches.
The nine-minute tableau vivant is presented in slow motion, bringing the famous painting to life.
It is almost impossible nowadays, when thinking about Jesus’ Last Supper, not to picture it in the very same way as Leonardo da Vinci did, five centuries ago (1495-1497). Indeed, the Italian painter captured the essence of this Gospel account in such a prodigious way notably through a revolutionary sense of perspective that his personal representation of the Institution of the Eucharist is indelibly ingrained in millions of minds worldwide, beyond fashions and generations.